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Solar Eclipse Webcasts

Posted by michael on from the goggles-do-nothing dept.

KjetilK writes "There is a nice partial solar eclipse in the morning of May 31. On Greenland, Iceland and northern Scotland it will be annular, whereas in most of northern Europe (and reaching into Asia), it will be a normal partial solar eclipse. There are several webcasts of the event coming up, including some from Netherlands and Belgium. Plugging our own, we have live webcasts from four cities in Norway. The eclipse comes up to 92% of the sun's radius here, and we have a great weather forecast."

13 comments

  1. BBC Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2946494.stm

  2. I am ready. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I did a sleep 5h && mikmod * now. good night!

  3. *moan* by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why doesn't the Universe have a sense of timing? Whenever there are moon eclipses where I live, it's either cloudy or reeeaally early in the morning.

    Now, there's a solar eclipse... Woohoo! Next is in 100+ years. And the time it's going to happen where I live:

    Saturday, 5:40 am, forecast is cloudy.

    WTF!

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    1. Re:*moan* by Alsee · · Score: 1

      Why doesn't the Universe have a sense of timing?

      I have good news for you! A spectacular astonomical event is coming up, and the timing will be perfect for you see it first hand!

      A once-in-a-century meteor nearly 10 meters across - comparable to the Tunguska event - will impact less than half a kilometer from your house. The skies will be perfectly clear and you'll be home to see it! What amazing luck!

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  4. Were all done for! by macdaddy357 · · Score: 1

    Eclipses are harbingers of doom. The end is upon us. Everybody duck and cover so you can kiss your ass goodbye!

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  5. Lousy webcasts by Kynde · · Score: 1

    I can see sun being 1/3 eclipsed already, yet the webcasts don't show anything but crap. Worst "live webcasts" I've seen...

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    1. Re:Lousy webcasts by KjetilK · · Score: 1
      What you were actually seeing was the sun coming up behind some trees. I thought they were rather nice.

      Unfortunately, our servers were pretty much wiped out by the flood of requests. We had two AS-20 alphas, each with 2 CPUs and a few gigs of RAM. A nice RAID, and fibrechannel between the disks and the machines, and each of the boxes had a gigabit/s link to the rest of the net. Apache had been recompiled for the occasion, to allow for more children (which was the bottleneck at the Mercury transit). Still, the servers couldn't keep up.

      So, we had some serious traffic here...

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    2. Re:Lousy webcasts by Kynde · · Score: 1

      I do understand. And truth be told, the same minute I had posted complaining sortage of pictures available and not being able to see jack sh*t, the sun popped into the pictures. I guess over in Finland the eclipse started somewhat sooner than in Norway, thus when I already saw the eclipse gotten to one third it must have been only just starting there.

      Cheers for the effort though. Your live pic hosting might have worked out quite a bit better had it not gotten slashdotted... :)

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  6. Pictures of the eclipse here by Kjeks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://kjeks.volda.org/solformorkelse/

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    1. Re:Pictures of the eclipse here by KjetilK · · Score: 1

      Cool! Be sure to send them to our photo competition! Especially the last one was nice!

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  7. Look! Dark! by jfengel · · Score: 1

    We had something like that here last night.

    Somehow eclipses just strike me as something you have to be there for.