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Partial Solar Eclipse Tonight
grouchomarxist writes "There is going to be a partial solar eclipse tonight. It will mainly be visible by people in the southwest of the United States. People in Mexico will have the best view, there it will approach a full eclipse." Space.com has a nice page on it too. Enjoy this solar event!
In all honesty, why was this posted? shua it's neat, but what's there to discuss?
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There will not be another one until 2012, so you might want to check this one out.
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We're all going to die! Run for your lives!
Oh wait, this is a normal celestial thing... not a sign from the gods. Nevermind.
They say it's BAD, real BAD to look directly at an eclipse. Personally, I think it's an old wives' tale.
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That is pretty impressive.
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this story was already posted to the science section here
I, for one, don't believe that science can predict when such an event will occur. And certainly not hours in advance.
Surely this 2012 eclipse will signify to coming apocalypse and end of the world? There's no other possible reason they wouldn't have plotted their calendar out further.
WTF? How the hell do you get a solar eclipse at night?
What about us Western Europeans? When do WE get a solar eclipse? Why does America have to MONOPOLISE everything?! Why can't Americans learn to share their damn astronomic phenomena instead of greedily keeping them for themselves?! This ABSOLUTELY TYPICAL OF DUBYAHS FACIST REGIME, monopolise the solar eclipses, soon you'll have a monopoly on 10 km radius asteroid strikes and nearby supernovas as well!
i hope the eclipse looks like this...
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then it will be worth watching
I love stuff like this.
to my three-year-old:
"You better be good boy, or Daddy's going to destroy the sun!"
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Ah, too true. Somebody mod this up for accurate nit-picking.
Partial Solar Eclipse Tonight.
The Earth is in the way! (Doh!)
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actually some people will have a chance to see the amazing annular eclipse which is much more interesting.
i saw the full eclipse last year (in bulgaria) and will definitely have my smoked glass for tonight's (50% only, where i'm at) eclipse!
Will I be able to see this in the North East (Montreal)? The article doesn't say, but I'm hoping to see a partial.
What time would it be at?
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America does not exist, there was a thread prooving it a few weeks ago on that Chinese "discovery" of America long after the first tales were spread.
This is just another story for school children, like Atlantis, Martians and anything by Noam Chomsky.
Now, go out to the Atlantic coast, look west and tell us what you see. If this mythical "America" were there it would be right in front of you, yes?
For once, The Sun does shine on Mexico.
Tonight there's a Solar Eclipse?
The world really is coming to an end.
A rather spectacular image from a 1992 annular eclipse (the name given to this type of eclipse) can be found at APOD today.
Don't look directly at the eclipse!
I can't wait to see it... oh wait, i forgot you're not supposed to look at it.. oh well... i guess the fun is knowing it is happening even though you aren't looking? -- Look Mom the Sun it's disappe-AAAAHHH my eyes!!!
I looked at my first solar eclipse years ago through my telescope. It was bright and spetacular - but since then, non of them have looked nearly as good as that first one :)
follow the link here for more info and a nice map of what you expect to see the eclipse time is ~6PM PST, which mean the sun is FAR from set -- at the bay area, anyway, the sun does not set till ~9 and don't stare at it! 2 good ways to look at the eclipse 1) bioculars / telescope reflected on paper 2) get a bucket of water, tint the water (ink, whatever) and look at the reflection (used to do this in low-tech China)
My life in the land of the rising sun.
I love it too! My son is getting immune now, he is 18 and suspects that I am not all powerful, so I invoke G-d. I usually use the Passover story, etc.
Of course, never look at the sun, even when partially blocked by the moon. To look safely, poke a pin hole in a piece of paper, and let the sunlight come through that paper and focus the image on a second piece of paper.
I've also had luck looking through a floppy disk, but I wouldn't recommend it. You can use welding glass, though.
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I bet I can get a really good look at the eclipse using my telescope!! Those warnings about not looking at the sun printed on the body of the scope? Oh, that's just for kids!!
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It's probably now that we will spot the comet coming which was previously shielded by the sun....
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I always post this, but the best eclipse web site is at http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
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Every time you hear about an eclipse, they tell you not to look directly at the sun. I know it can burn out your retina and make you blind, but so will staring at the sun on a day without the eclipse.
Does anyone know if looking at the sun during an eclipse is actually worse for your eyes than looking at the sun at any other time? I would guess that the intensity of the sunlight would have to be greater during an eclipse to cause more retinal damage in a shorter period of time. Anyone know why this is the case?
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Enjoy this event, courtesy of slashdot!
"Personal note: When I was little my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so when I was six I did." - Max Cohen
...this parent post is kidding and should be moderated as "Funny", or you're as blind as the poster pretends to be!
The pupil dilates as the light dies. This means the first beads of sunlight as the eclipse ends shining around the moon comes straight through a wide-open eye tracking across the retina like a magnifying glass onto paper. It is easy to look directly at those first beads for too long (a glance won't hurt though).
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The Yahoo article discusses how the eclipse starts on Tuesday, June 11 and ends on Monday, June 10. Interesting, eh?
Of Course this is because the moon travels east across the sun and over the international dateline but still.
It can make you blind.
Remember, the Sun is our solar system's largest "dirty bomb." While this radiological event has yet to be tied to the Abu Sayyaf or Qaeda groups, be warned that the FBI considers this an act of solar terrorism, President Bush has yet to say if this has been "securitized" for our protection, and the INS reserves the right to fingerprint and mock you.
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Incredible isn't it.
Technically speaking, the earth eclipses the sun every night...
I'm in the Los Angeles area and own a Canon XL1 MiniDV camcorder with a 16:1 zoom. I was thinking of going up to a nice high point in my area and videotaping the eclipse, using a portable battery and a 9" Sony TV to compose and focus the image. I would then use my camera's manual exposure controls to taste based on the image on the Sony.
If I just go out and start shooting the sun, is this going to damage my camcorder if I use its built-in neutral density filter?
I will be synchronizing my camera's internal clock to Pacific Bell time - will that be good enough to match the time predictions?
I don't think I will have time to buy a filter, but viewing the eclipse through the adjacent monitor should work.
Am I nuts to do this in view of the possibility of blowing out the CCDs of a very expensive camcorder, or should I not worry about it?
Many thanks for any ideas.
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This morning my MessagePad 120 informed me that an eclipse was going to happen today. Just one more thing that my PDA does that yours doesn't. :)
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I plan on trying to capture it with my digital camera. Hopefully the LED screen doesn't have enough power to blind me :) (Or, if it does, I'm going to sue the FUCK out of Sony ;)
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we have a total solar eclipse *every* 24 hours. What happens is that the other half of the earth completely blocks our view of the sun.
So are you going to edit the movie with iMovie?
This particular eclipse is an Annular, where the Moon's shadow is somewhat smaller than the Sun's disk. From the right location, it appears as a bright ring around a dark Moon. I've not seen one, but I've heard some Umbraphiles say "I wouldn't cross the street for an Annular Eclipse."
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If you live in Ontario tomorrow night (2002-06-11) at 21:57 the ISS with docked shuttle will show up in the NorthWest near the horizon and make it's way across the sky in 5 minutes to set in the SouthEast. It will show up near Venus which will also be in the NorthWest. Apparently the shuttle docked with the ISS makes for quite a bright celestial object (twice as luminous as the ISS normally is). According to the editor of Sky News who was speaking about this (and the eclipse) on CBC this afternoon it will be unmistakable (not only due to its movement but also its brightness).
A good tool for tracking the ISS can be found at liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov for those who are interested.
OBEclipse: The moon is in space -- so is the ISS :-)
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that will tell me if i'll be able to see it at all? i live in northern iowa, i figure i'm screwed
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I saw a putty tat
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According to my newspaper, it's going to be a partial eclipse with 54% coverage of the solar surface. That's enough to make it "mainly" viewable here in Eugene, OR.
I imagine it will be interesting, even in Seattle. (Provided it isn't raining)
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Why does it always rain here during astronomical events. stupid rain. stupid clouds. stupid weather. who plans these things anyways? :-)
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We have our viewers ready in Spokane Washington but it looks like this cloud cover isn't going to go away. *pout* Oh well.. perhaps in another 15 years the total eclipse might be visible.
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But will we be able to see Uranus?
Everything? Everything?!? What about bad dental work? Body Odor? Unshaven pit areas? You Euros are doing just fine in the "monopolisation" department.
You even had a lock on soccer hooliganism, but then you had to go and fuck that up this weekend by letting the Russians start a riot!
Jeez!
...until the MPAA blocks free eclipses too?
You could just forget about going up to the nice high point, stay down in LA, and let the smog be your filter. That oughta work.
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Thanx alot chris d. First you tell everyone the lone gunmen died, spoiling it for those on the west coast. Now you tell everyone about an eclipse that hasn't yet happened on the west coast for a few more hours. You could have let them discover the sudden disappearance of the sun with total surprise, rather than spoil it for them.
/. used to handle time sensitive stories in the good ol' days (of last weekend) :-)
You should follow the fine example set by Hemos when he waited until closing time to announce the Festival of Inappropriate Technology this past weekend in London. That was how
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We've had a simulated solar eclipse for the last week. Fscking rain
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
I can look directly at the sun - big red ball, not all that bright. Who needs smoked glass when you have smoked air?
80,000+ acre wildfire out of control. Smoke up to 30,000 feet spreading across Colorado to Nebraska to South Dakota (visible on satellite). Completely out of control, nothing we can do but hope for a weather change. They pulled the crews from in front of it, calling it suicidal to fight this thing from in front. Humidities as low as 5%. Winds 25-35 gusting to 45 fanning the fire and keeping hte slurry bombers and tankers from fighting it effectively. Problem is fuel: timber here has less moisture (10%) than kiln dried lumber due to drought.
Peronal note: I worked at the Lockheed rocket engine plant (boosters). And it is in the way of this fire at Waterton Canyon facility. Thats a bad mix: 200 ft wall of flames advancing at 5-10 MPH and tons of rocket fuel in bunkers nearby. Bad combo.
40,000 people evacuated as of 4PM mountain time. Rained ash (like snow flurries) here at my house.
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Your screwed by not being able to see it and I am screwed by driving straight into it. on the Northbound 101 in California (the freeway actualy goes west on the part that I drive). with congestion as normal I should get to see the whole event from the comfort of my SUVs seat.
(not that I have a choice)
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If you stack 2 or 3 cd's (with no printed labels that cover their surface) together, they produce a very dim and comforable-to-view solar disc. Although, I wonder if they block out other harmful wavelengths of light. For that reason, I have ownly taken very very brief glimpses of the sun using that method. Anyone know if it's good?
Um, do you know that for a fact or are you just making an unfounded guess?
I'm no optics expert, but I've never read any sort of warning not to point digicams at intense light.
Some quick hunting on google:
- 'CCDs
... don't suffer from "burnout" or "trailing" in bright light.' (Link) - 'A solar eclipse has huge contrast, and digital photos suffer from the "bloom" effect of the CCD, where super-bright pixels bleed like crazy into their neighbours.' (Link)
The second in particular seems to indicate there's nothing harmful about using a digicam to capture an eclipse, you just won't get a good image. I'm pretty handy with Photoshop though, so I still intend to try"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
The best way to view the eclipse is to look at pictures of it on your monitor.
HOWEVER: DO NOT look directly at your monitor!!! Because you can easily burn out your retinals.
Thank you for your time and good luck.
Of the two types of solar eclipses, this is an annular eclipse. This means that the vertex of the umbra never reaches the Earth. The umbra is the cone region extending from the Moon towards the Earth that is the Moon's shadow. So even if we were to be standing at the center point in the path of the shadow, the Moon will not completely block out the Sun in an annular eclipse. Thus, a total eclipse occurs when the umbra at least reaches the Earth.
The frequency of observation of total vs. annular eclipses can be arrived at by examining the following facts about the shadow of the Moon:
Moon's distance from Earth (miles): Max = 252710, Min = 221460, Mean = 238900
Length of Umbra (miles): Max = 236700, Min = 226800, Mean = 231100
It's pretty interesting actually. This means that the Earth, Moon, and Sun are positioned and sized in such a way as to guarantee totality a little less than half the time a solar eclipse occurs.
There is going to be a partial solar eclipse tonight.
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It's in progress now here in Vancouver. There are some clouds around, but not enough to spoil the experience.
My low-tech equipment is a pinhole camera made from a cardboard box. It has a piece of white paper taped inside as a viewing screen, with the "lens" a pinhole poked in a piece of 120 film backing paper.
It works fine, and I observed 1st contact at 0003 UTC, 1703 PDT.
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Is it okay If I few the solar eclipse through several layers of an antistatic bag?
Solar eclipse tonight? Well, I suppose it's always night somewhere but I get a grin from it anyway... :-)
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It's a really great opportunity to expose them to a bit of science, a bit of engineering, and bit of safety training, and a bit of "look, the world is interesting and you don't need a huge pile of money to see that".
I started out with a card with a hole punched in it. That didn't work, so we used a smaller hole. Then we played around with it a bit and discovered that the bigger hole worked if you moved the card farther away from the projection surface.
They got the biggest kick out of my making little crescent shaped sun shadows using my hand as a shadow puppet, though...
An eclipse of the moon occurs when the Sun passes between the Earth and the Moon.
Who says the schools in the US have a poor science curriculum!
It almost didn't happen because of the cloud cover we had over the midwest, but right at the peak of the eclipse it poked out from under a cloud on the horizon. Then I proposed.
For any who're curious to see: I pulled out the binocs, a white sheet of paper and the camera to snap off a few frames of the eclipse as seen from the southern part of San Jose, CA.
The pictures can be found here.
I was in Central PA. The sun sunk below the mountains before it even started. I used a welders shield. I was a bit disappointed as Philly was predicted at 0%, Pittsburgh was at 22% and I'm in the middle so I was think maybe 10%. Damn mountains.
Hey, look, this ball will hit you in 2 seconds! Why didn't you turn away? Maybe it's cuz you didn't have enough time? Hmm. Let's sit on that for a while. A solar eclipse will occur TODAY. But, here is a revolutionary idea. Would it not be nice it the article said that the solar eclipse will occur tomorror, or is a few days? Hmm. And of course, wouldn't it be nice if the article was published a few days ago? Hmm. That way, people could actually do some planning to see the event. Wouldn't that be fucking nice, if you fucking morons thought yo post it a few days ago? Hmm. Hmm...
I was on an airline descending into San Diego during the eclipse. The ground had an eerie feeling from above, though the sun was bright as usual. Using the "pinpoint" trick, I could see the eclipsed-shaped sun in its shadow.
When we got on the ground a parking agent was kind enough to lend me their translucent viewer. Sure enough, 40% of the sun was "eaten" by the moon. It's always fun to look at.
Being close, but not close enough to an eclipse at sunset, I wonder if anyone in Phoenix, Tuscon, or Mexico got any cool sunset views or photos during their sunset. Tonight I saw the full sun set an hour after the eclipse and wondered how cool it would be to see an eclipsed sun setting. Anyone? Put your pics online and give us a URL for some surefire moderator points.
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The URL is http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/pv/daylife.html
Legend has it that after Columbus wore out his welcome with the natives in Jamaica, they stopped bringing his crew food, and even jailed a couple of them for improprieties with native girls. Knowing a lunar eclipse was coming, Columbus threatened that his God would destroy the village if they did not release the men and bring his crew food. The natives laughed at this, but Columbus said that his god would show his power by eating their moon that night. After about an hour of the eclipse, Columbus announced that God would return the moon to the sky if the natives promised to bring them food and release the men. Of course, he got what he asked for.
... if you are a Java developer, definitely check out the eclipse, it's better than looking at the sun.
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That is the link to the Astronomy Picture of the day, which has since changed.
The ring of fire can be seen here
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