Solar Eclipse: Friday 20th March

[Cleoriff]

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 ....

[MI5]

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

[viridis]

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

[Cleoriff]

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

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

[viridis]

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.

[viridis]

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

The safest way of looking at it.

[Cleoriff]

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

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@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

[Beenherebefore]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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

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

[MI5]

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

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

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:

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

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

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