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Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Cleoriff — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:26:56 GMT

A spectacular event is occuring on Friday 20th March 2015

The UK will experience a near-total solar eclipse which is due to block out the light of the sun in Britain, leaving parts of the UK shrouded in 99% darkness on Friday.

Although total eclipses can be seen somewhere on Earth every year or so, they are rarely seen in Europe. The eclipse this week, will be the first in Britain in this century.

It will start approximately 8am on Friday morning.....

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/solar-eclipse-2015-where-watch-uk-what-time-see-moon-block-out-sun-1492116

Many events to celebrate this event are due to take place acoss the UK...

Also many warnings being issued re protecting eyesight ....

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

MI5 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:31:35 GMT

Do we have to dance naked around a flag pole.....?

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

viridis — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:33:35 GMT

No @MI5
That's when it's a total eclipse.
For a partial we have to slap our bit on tree trunks

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Cleoriff — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:34:47 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Do we have to dance naked around a flag pole.....?

I doubt it Rich.... at 8am on a Friday morning...Rush hour and all that

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

viridis — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:36:28 GMT

The top section of the sun will be covered and the further north you are, the more that will be covered. Where I am is expected to be 95% eclipsed.

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

viridis — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:37:56 GMT

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/make-pinhole-projector.html

The safest way of looking at it.

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Cleoriff — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:40:04 GMT

@viridis wrote:
No @MI5
That's when it's a total eclipse.
For a partial we have to slap our bit on tree trunks

@viridisAnd there was I thinking you as an expert....would be astounding us with facts about this Eclipse...Something about peregrine moons that I read about and understood very little....instead I hear about bits on tree trunks ..

Edit...and by the time I had typed the above....you had gone all expert....thanks

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Beenherebefore — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:39:00 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Also many warnings being issued re protecting eyesight ....

Very little need for that......cloud cover will be so dense that we won't even notice the partial eclipse

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

MI5 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:39:05 GMT

@viridis wrote:
No @MI5
That's when it's a total eclipse.
For a partial we have to slap our bit on tree trunks

Cheers - didn't want to get it wrong...... again

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Cleoriff — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:42:57 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
@viridis wrote:
No @MI5
That's when it's a total eclipse.
For a partial we have to slap our bit on tree trunks
Cheers - didn't want to get it wrong...... again

I will position myself on the A444 in order to watch this phenomenon. The tree slapping not the eclipse

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

viridis — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:44:35 GMT

@Beenherebefore wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
Also many warnings being issued re protecting eyesight ....
Very little need for that......cloud cover will be so dense that we won't even notice the partial eclipse

You will but only a little, if it's cloudy you probably could go without noticing.

animals do though, they act all odd during an eclipse, especially birds.

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

jonsie — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:05:04 GMT

@viridis wrote:
@Beenherebefore wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
Also many warnings being issued re protecting eyesight ....
Very little need for that......cloud cover will be so dense that we won't even notice the partial eclipse
You will but only a little, if it's cloudy you probably could go without noticing.
animals do though, they act all odd during an eclipse, especially birds.

Yes I've seen birds acting oddly, obviously affected by different phases of the moon. There again it could just be the effects of Sang Som....

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:21:26 GMT

So..who is going to watch the eclipse tomorrow? and who is going to dance naked?

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

viridis — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:24:15 GMT

No marina, as discussed with MI5, a partial means slapping bits against a tree.

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Cleoriff — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:36:46 GMT

@viridis wrote:
No marina, as discussed with MI5, a partial means slapping bits against a tree.

Yes...I have already set up my tent on the A444 to watch 'He Who Dares'....

Will I need to bring my torch?

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

MI5 — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:41:00 GMT

Tweezers

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Cleoriff — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:43:00 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Tweezers

Oh...in that case I may as well stop in my tent....

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

jonsie — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:56:28 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
@MI5 wrote:
Tweezers
Oh...in that case I may as well stop in my tent....

You won't miss much then

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

Toby — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:33:17 GMT

Who's watching the eclipse and where guys?

Re: Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

viridis — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:33:59 GMT

I am.
And it's in the sky toby.