Visible cross Africa, Asia Minor and Europe. A total eclipse for some lucky, lucky bastarts.

Check out the animations here to see what you might see:
http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0212006

Definitely worth a glance*, even if you only get a partial.

If you have no facilities for observing the Sun, see if there is a local astronomy group running a viewing event near you.

*Obvious but important! - don't look at the sun with the naked eye or through sunglasses and DO NOT look at it through any type of optical instrument without proper filtering. If you don't know what a proper solar filter is, don't use an optical instrument - period - full stop - nada. Instant permanent blindness city, with horrendous permanent pain to remind you on those rare occasions when you forget that you can't see anymore.

*Safe seeing:
http://www.eclipse-chasers.com/safe.htm

Ooh, partly visible from (some of) China, India and South America too.

Am I allowed to look at it through a magnifying-glass?

I mean with it being so far away, maybe it will look a bit bigger :-D

Len.
(Who switched the light out)

Got an email about this myself. AEST = GMT+10 Total Solar Eclipse web cast - Wednesday 29 March ------------------------------------------------- The next solar eclipse will not be visible directly from Australia. It will be web cast live from Turkey on Wednesday 29 March 2006. Web cast times are: Start - 8 pm AEST (add one hour if Summer time applies) End - 9.15 pm AEST The actual total eclipse occurs for only two and a half minutes and begins at 8.54 pm AEST. Before and after this short window, a partial eclipse will be visible (i.e. only part of the Sun 'covered' by the Moon). The web cast URL is: http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/2006/index.html

Attached Link: http://www.cappadociacavesuites.com/En/default.asp

We had a partial some time back. Talk about weird! All the birds stopped singing and the farm animals went really quiet.......go figure.

I remember a couple. I was at work furing the last full eclipse, but it was pretty eerie standing on a London West End street and it was pretty much silent. I do remember a partial. Got pretty dark then too and yeah, no animal sounds (apart from our dog barking at it for a while) and the wind died down and then total silence for 5 minutes. Very weird, but VERY cool. Shame I'm gonna miss this.

Yeh last eclipse in the UK was pretty much spoilt by the weather in most places. But still managed to do irreversible damage to my retinas in catching a glimpse between the seasonal summer clouds.

Did you know that the Sun is exactly 400 time bigger than the moon which is exactly 400 times further away....a bit of useless information :)

"I was at work furing the last full eclipse, but it was pretty eerie standing on a London West End street and it was pretty much silent."

The last total solar eclipse over London was in 1715 - I should have a word about your retirement and pension provisions ;-).
I think I know what you mean though (probably the 1999 eclipse that was total down in the southeast corner of Britain).

With tomorrow's, as viewed from the UK , you won't notice any dimming of light. There's only a small chunk bitten out of the Sun. The weather forecast is typically dismal too, but there might be a break. I've made some safe solar filters for my 10x50 binoculars and I'll take those into work for occasional sneak peeks.

I was in Devon for the total eclipse in 1999, the weather really ruined what I was hoping would be a fantastic experience. This time I didn't have a problem, I'm in Turkey, Istanbul at the moment and we had a beautiful view of near totality. It won't happen here again for about 50 years so I can't say how pleased I was to be here and see the Sun in all it's glory. I've been going to the NASA site to look at it again ever since the event. It was the most beautiful experience I have ever had. 8) Catlin