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OT: Partial Solar Eclipse.

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  • 01-08-2008 10:09am
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    squonk
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    There's an eclipse happening this morning. Sorry for the OT post but seeing as a lot of us are generally interested in science I think and natural events it might be of interest to some.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0801/eclipse.html

    don't look at the sun directly... (just have to say it) but cut a small hole in a piece of paper with a scissors or even a pin and hold the paper in front of another sheet with both sheets facing the sun. A weak image of the sun will be projected onto the backmost piece of paper so you'll be able to follow the progress that way.


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    Standard Toaster
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    Too overcast in Dublin city centre :(


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    mike65
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    Its clearing at the moment here so might notice it.

    Mike.


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    ch750536
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    What's that thing behind the moon?


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    mike65
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    is it over has it started? I think the skies might have cleared too late. :(

    Mike


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    squonk
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    Over at this stage really.


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    Snowbie
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    Even when the sun shows itself, it is blocked by something else.

    Eclipse over and the clouds have rolled back in now.


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    Standard Toaster
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    We never get the clear skies for the Solar eclipses. I've never witnessed a good one.

    The Lunar eclipses are not so bad.


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    Weather BOFH
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    Too cloudy here too, didn't even notice a dip the the light levels or any drop in temperature.

    There's also a partial eclipse of the moon due on the 16th of August.


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    squonk
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    The_Edge wrote: »
    We never get the clear skies for the Solar eclipses. I've never witnessed a good one.

    The Lunar eclipses are not so bad.

    We had a nice day for the last one about 18 months ago. We even had a nice day for the really good one back in 1998 when they had heaps of cloud in Cornwall.


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