Eclipse!

Lutin

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Be careful please if you are intending to view the eclipse tomorrow.

That is if it's not too overcast to view the damn thing. ;)
 

Ian Porter

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I'm viewing it with about 500 school kids,

We have a good forecast for the morning too

Wish me luck :)
 

Chewbadger

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I'll be at about 32,000ft somewhere over Italy mate, hope I get to see something but may have had the in flight beer goggles on by then....
 

Steve T

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Ian Porter said:
I'm viewing it with about 500 school kids . . . .

Yep, that lot should be dense enough to prevent any damage to your eyes when looking at the big shinny thing as it dissappears, but I'd have though a pair of those special speccy things would have been easier to control ;) :thumbsupanim:

Steve T

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Philwhiskeydrinker

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I just managed a *crappy phone pic with light cloud cover.

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* edit, that should read - really really crappy phone pic!
 

Lutin

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That's not so bad, Phil.

We had lovely clear sky here in Galway. I've tried to take some pictures using the "pinhole camera" technique.

This one is at 9:18 -



And again at 9:40 -



Not brilliant, I admit, but you can see a change in the obscuration of the sun by the moon.

Well, I reckon you can anyway.

What really got me was the drop in temperature - it was really noticeable. Remember this from the last eclipse in '99 when I was stood on the roof of the Queen's University Stranmillis Road building.
 

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Lutin

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Austin, those photos beat my efforts into a cocked hat.
 

-XP-

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Great photo's, Austin.

Unfortunately there was nothing to photo here in Redcar as cloud meant I couldn't see anything but a darkening of the sky. :(

Would love to go tot he U.S.A for the one in 2017.
 

Rubberchicken

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Any of those beat what I could see this morning. All I got was a sky full of battleship grey which was getting light, then dark, then light again. Oh well, better luck next time.
 

Ian Porter

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Looks like you had a similar show to us Austin.
The kids at the school thought it was great,( mainly as they got out of lessons this morning I suspect)
 

Lowflyer

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For a change from the West coast, watched it today on Aberdeen beach, pretty damn spectacular :cool2:
Lots of folks there, packed in fact, cars with lights on at 0930, kinda spooky. Very light cloud, lucky really.

Strange to think it will be the last eclipse I ( and most of us ) will ever see in our lifetime, next time I see it I will be in the clouds, or, more, probable, somewhere else not so cloudy and nice :D :D
 

Ian Porter

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Lowflyer said:
Strange to think it will be the last eclipse I ( and most of us ) will ever see in our lifetime, next time I see it I will be in the clouds, or, more, probable, somewhere else not so cloudy and nice :D :D

It's only another 11 years till the next one we'll see (in this neck of the woods anyway)
 

Lowflyer

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Ian Porter said:
Lowflyer said:
Strange to think it will be the last eclipse I ( and most of us ) will ever see in our lifetime, next time I see it I will be in the clouds, or, more, probable, somewhere else not so cloudy and nice :D :D

It's only another 11 years till the next one we'll see (in this neck of the woods anyway)
Ian Porter said:
Lowflyer said:
Strange to think it will be the last eclipse I ( and most of us ) will ever see in our lifetime, next time I see it I will be in the clouds, or, more, probable, somewhere else not so cloudy and nice :D :D

It's only another 11 years till the next one we'll see (in this neck of the woods anyway)


Yeah, I know Ian, I'm an idiot :eekicon:

Heard somewhere that the next one would be in 2090 which is well out with my mortal time range :lol:
With a bit of luck I'll see the next one too , hurrah :beer:
 

-XP-

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I think the 2090 one is a full eclipse but like Ian says, there's one in 2026 or you could go to the USA and see one in 2017.
 
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