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Partial Solar Eclipse Tonight

Posted by chrisd on from the don't-look-right-at-it-though dept.

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!

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  1. not a full solar.. by Xzzy · · Score: 5, Informative
    The moon is at it's furthest point in it's orbit around earth. The effect this has is that the moon is incapable of fully blocking the sun, this is because the moon's orbit is slightly elliptic.

    A rather spectacular image from a 1992 annular eclipse (the name given to this type of eclipse) can be found at APOD today.

  2. Re:the ring of fire by tswinzig · · Score: 4, Informative

    i saw the full eclipse last year (in bulgaria) and will definitely have my smoked glass for tonight's

    You might want to re-think that smoked glass. According to NASA, "Unsafe filters include color film, some non-silver black and white film, medical x-ray films with images on them, smoked glass, photographic neutral density filters and polarizing filters."

    Of course if my response doesn't reach you in time, you won't be able to read it anyway.

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