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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. Golden opportunity by L.+VeGas · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. the ring of fire by F2F · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!

    1. 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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  3. Today/tonight? by clinko · · Score: 4, Funny



    Tonight there's a Solar Eclipse?

    The world really is coming to an end.

  4. 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.

  5. Re:A solar eclipse at night? by coljac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, like most nights, the earth will eclipse the the sun tonight. The earth's shadow will sweep across the surface of the planet, covering an area of about half the earth's surface at a time.

    This eclipse is visible from all parts of the earth starting around nightfall. Depending on your lattitude the eclipse will last up to 17 hours.

    By the way, it's safe to look at this eclipse all you like, with no filters at all.

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  6. They're not that great. by Sabalon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :)