Forum: Bryce


Subject: OT - Eclipse of the Sun Weds 29th March

PJF opened this issue on Mar 27, 2006 ยท 11 posts


PJF posted Mon, 27 March 2006 at 3:15 PM

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