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Celestial Double Feature

Posted by chrisd on from the pretty-lights dept.

stitzman writes: "I can't believe nobody has submitted news about the eclipse yet, but I haven't seen anything. The first part of this article on CNN is about the Geminids, but the second half is about the solar eclipse on Friday afternoon. Cool stuff."

7 comments

  1. Meteors and Eclipses, Oh my! by Dancing+Tree · · Score: 1

    Wow, what a great year for celestial activities. I'll definitely be checking out the Geminids and I hope that I'm not to far east to see the eclipse. An eclipsing sunset sounds like a once in a lifetime sighting!

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  2. More specific info by Satai · · Score: 3, Informative

    Space.com has a viewing guide with some times for different locations.

    City Start Max Stop
    Los Angeles 12:04 1:10 2:12
    Seattle 12:22 12:48 1:14
    Denver 1:48 2:38 3:24
    Chicago 3:08 3:59 sunset
    Miami 4:14 5:25 sunset
    New York 4:13 sunset --
    Mexico City 2:45 4:13 5:26

  3. more celestial events by m_evanchik · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a detailed listing of times for the eclipse
    throughout North America

    http://www.skypub.com/sights/skyevents/0112skyev en ts_table.html

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    1. Re:more celestial events by m_evanchik · · Score: 2

      Whoops.

      make sure to delete the space in the last part of the url (in "skyevents"). Slash is formatting it in automatically.

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    2. Re:more celestial events by CarterUSM · · Score: 1

      Thanks for the link! I've been unsucessfully looking for a local timetable for a half an hour. I should have known to check the slashdot story in the first place.

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    3. Re:more celestial events by m_evanchik · · Score: 2

      My luck, it rained all day Friday! I missed it.

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  4. Safe Eclipse Viewing by Alexius · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you look through the actual disk part of a floppy diskette (Either 5.25 or 3.5 size), you will see the sun as a red circle, and you can safely watch the eclipse through them.


    Can't say if the diskette will survive, never tried it with one I liked.

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