Partial eclipse on Thursday. Peaks at 11:13.

https://news.sky.com/story/rare-solar-eclipse-to-appear-in-uk-skies-this-week-as-spectacular-ring-of-fire-phenomenon-occurs-12326891

 

Don't burn your eyes out boys and girls.

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On Thursday morning, it will be possible too see nearly a third of the sun being blocked out by the moon in what is known as an annular eclipse.

Oh, dear God  A third of the Sun being blocked by the Moon is a partial eclipse. The annular eclipse can only be observed close to the centreline, and the Moon will cover over 90 per cent of the solar disk at maximum eclipse.

I will ignore the use of "too" instead of "to"

Edited June 7, 20214 yr by Christopher Low

25 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

 

I will ignore the use of "too" instead of "to"

AH, my pet peeve!   1 and 2  spelled one and two??   Should be wun and tu 🤔  The other way should be pronounced OH-nay and Twoh.  Just my cheap shot for the day.  I should see a near full ring of fire! ☀️

1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

Oh, dear God  A third of the Sun being blocked by the Moon is a partial eclipse. The annular eclipse can only be observed close to the centreline, and the Moon will cover over 90 per cent of the solar disk at maximum eclipse.

I will ignore the use of "too" instead of "to"

If you want to get really picky, other errors include...

Sun and Moon not being capitalised, since they are in this case talking about our Sun and our Moon, thus they are proper nouns. Not capitalising Northern in 'Northern Canada' (again since this is an actual geographic location, both words become proper nouns). No hyphen in use of 'partially eclipsed'. The redundant use of serious in 'serious and permanent damage' (we can assume permanent damage is always serious). The missing full stop after the abbreviated 'Doctor', and the hyphen in the wrong location in the following aside:

'Dr Drabek-Maunder suggests using a simple pinhole projector, solar eclipse viewing glasses - which can be purchased online, or special solar filters - which can fit on telescopes, to observe the eclipse.'

Not strictly speaking incorrect, but also bad grammatically, is the number of single-sentence paragraphs and the use of '10 June' as opposed to 'June 10' since the article is aimed at UK readers, where that is the more common format.

And to cap it all off, if you want to get really picky, the word 'from' in the headline is in the wrong place grammatically and the phrase should also use 'may' instead of 'will', since it is not guaranteed to be possible, i.e. not: 'where 'ring of fire' will be visible from', rather: 'from where the 'ring of fire' may be visible'.

Sub-editing for the win! 🤣

 

 

Edited June 7, 20214 yr by Chock

So, I alert you to the eclipse and all I get is grammar and spelling. 😔

I have yet to see either a total or annular solar eclipse. I was in the path of the Moon's shadow for the eclipse of 1999 August 11 (and the darkness was quite spectacular), but it was cloudy during totality The closest that I have come to seeing the solar disk completely obscured by the Moon was on 2015 March 20. A total of 91.5 per cent of the solar disk was hidden by the Moon at maximum eclipse (as seen from Ulverston, England), and the reduction in ambient light was very noticeable.

EDIT: Sorry, Martin.

Edited June 7, 20214 yr by Christopher Low

4 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I have yet to see either a total or annular solar eclipse.

I had the good fortune to be on the MS Monte Umbe on Saturday 30 June 1973 anchored off the coast of Mauritania to observe the second longest total solar eclipse of the 20th Century.

Over 6m of totality and with a near calm conditions were excellent. Patrick Moore on board with the Sky at Night team. I have digitised my slides and will post a couple tomorrow.

There is no greater sight in nature. Magnificent and awe-inspiring are not overdoing it.

Thursday’s will go unnoticed by the general public in most of the world. Even an annular eclipse still allows enough light through for it to appear normal.

Here in the Northeastern US (weather permitting) the sun will rise already partially eclipsed. 

5 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I have yet to see either a total or annular solar eclipse. I was in the path of the Moon's shadow for the eclipse of 1999 August 11 (and the darkness was quite spectacular), but it was cloudy during totality The closest that I have come to seeing the solar disk completely obscured by the Moon was on 2015 March 20. A total of 91.5 per cent of the solar disk was hidden by the Moon at maximum eclipse (as seen from Ulverston, England), and the reduction in ambient light was very noticeable.

I was incredibly fortunate to be in Normandy, France at the time of the 1999 total eclipse.

I remember the excitement building. Hundreds of people with their cars parked up on both sides of a stretch of nondescript road in the middle of the French countryside. The excitable chatter and birdsong falling silent as it became darker with the penumbra passing over us followed by the audible gasp from everyone as totality occured and the 'diamond ring' became visible.
 

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I had the good fortune to be on the MS Monte Umbe on Saturday 30 June 1973 anchored off the coast of Mauritania to observe the second longest total solar eclipse of the 20th Century.

Over 6m of totality and with a near calm conditions were excellent. Patrick Moore on board with the Sky at Night team. I have digitised my slides and will post a couple tomorrow.

There is no greater sight in nature. Magnificent and awe-inspiring are not overdoing it.

Thursday’s will go unnoticed by the general public in most of the world. Even an annular eclipse still allows enough light through for it to appear normal.

Sounds like a great way to see an eclipse. And the description spot-on.

Here are the only eclipse photos I've ever captured - helped by a very foggy/cloudy day and a welder's lens.
Still a great to experience a partial eclipse.

Here's a few images as promised. The eclipse started at 09:00 and ended just after noon local time. Totality started at 10:31.

The time of each partial eclipse shot is in the filename. Exposure time in totality shots. 1 sec on a moving platform was down to luck.

Mamiya-Sekor 1000DTL SLR, 200mm f4 lens with x2 converter, High Speed Ektachrome slide film used.

15 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

EDIT: Sorry, Martin

 

No probs. I wasn't totally serious.

I recall the 1999  eclipse in UK. It was quite weird. Quite unusual lighting. And yes, I recall the birds were silent. Although that could have been my imagination. And I saw the diamond ring.

I wasn't able to photograph the 2015 partial eclipse as I didn't have a suitable solar filter. The weather was forecast to be cloudy that morning in Cheshire so using Google Street View I found a layby on the A5 west of J12 M6 where the forecast was for clear skies.

As Martin alludes to with an eclipsed sun around 90% the light became unnatural and the birds definitely reacted to it. Instead I used a light meter to measure the available light at regular intervals. On the attached chart each 1 EV (vertical axis) is half the amount of light. So at maximum eclipse there was just one eighth of the normal light.

These events are pretty rare in any one place so you need to maximise your opportunity of seeing them even if 37% eclipsed is not that significant.

Anybody who has read "Tintin : Prisoners of the Sun" knows how important it is to  to be aware of the date and hour of the next eclipse

 

I remember the total solar eclipse in Indonesia back in 1983. The path of the shadow passed almost directly over the ancient man-made temple mountain of Borobudur which had quite a large part of the population nervous. In their tradition the sun is swallowed by a demon and then spat out again, because it's too hot. (I even still have an - unopened -  can of Bir Bintang somewhere with their commemorative design like this one:

 

 

(This picture is taken from another site)

 

The government had been warning for weeks before the event not to go out and look at the sun for fear of people going blind - and so when it acturally took place us expats were the only people on the beach. Everyone else was indoors watching it on TV... And the beach was a good choice, because friends who had gone inland to see it at Borobudur were disappointed - they were stuck under clouds, while we had clear skies and the most amazing ring of brightness all around us along the horizon but almost pitch black overhead. The eclipse in 1999 which I saw in Germany didn't have the same effect... The only thing that was similar was the sudden quiet as the birds stopped singing.

 

Cheers

 

Mallard

That "ring of brightness" all around the horizon was clearly evident in the 1999 eclipse from my location just north of Plymouth, England. The rapid onset of darkness in the last few minutes before totality was something that I will never forget.