Where I am a bunch of clouds just happened to get in the way so I can't see jack.
During the 2015 eclipse
, I did watch the sun through semi-closed eyes and a piece of paper. Not much of the sun was covered from Switzerland but the sun became noticeably less bright.
A local optometrist was sharing some eclipse glasses, so I got to see the partial one from where I am, and that was sick. Seeing it through the hand pinhole method was pretty cool too.
Living in Ottawa, no signs of dark skies. Is it too late, or too far away?
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Ottawa is probably too far out of the path to see much darkening, but you would still catch a partial eclipse if you had the proper glasses.
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And if it was all sunny, you may notice a darkening of the day.
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That and still a bit early, I think. We got a view of the partial eclipse at 10:15 here in California, so it'll still be a bit before you start seeing anything on the east coast.
No difference in sunlight. No difference in temperature. I'd say out here it's a bust.
Well, of course it isn't if it has not yet reached you...
Ottawa will receive a noticeable shadow, with insolation reduced to one third.
Has someone a timetable of the eclipse?
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Some shots during and just beyond totality from my home in NC.
You can just barely make out some flares in the lower right corner.
As soon as it got dark and stars were visible all of the birds through the woods started singing. I imagine they were rather confused for a while.
I threw together a projector card and got this. NY is pretty far from the totality zone; we maxed out at 70% covered.
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Atlanta was just out of the totality zone—about 2.9% of the sun's light was left un-eclipsed in town. Twas about the effect of wearing high quality sunglasses, and, oddly enough, details of the world got sharper for those few moments.
edited 21st Aug '17 5:23:49 PM by CenturyEye
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The International Space Station just pulled off the photobomb of a lifetime
Captured by NASA photographer Joel Kowsky while looking up from Banner, Wyoming, perfectly timed images show a tiny ISS passing in front of the sun.
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While we were getting ready for the eclipse, I had a friend say something for which she has been relentlessly teased and informed that she will never live down:
"I know that this kind of eclipse, the one where the moon passes in front of the sun, is pretty rare. But how often does the other kind happen? The one where the sun passes in front of the moon?"
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Oh, bother.
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That is not how a lunar eclipse works. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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Now I'm curious as to how often you would get a Sol eclipse on the moon, with the earth totally blocking the sun from the perspective of the moon (though it would be the moon's movement that bought this about not that on the earth).
Could that happen or am I being stupid here?
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The good wiki confirms it, with the next total one visible (if anything were ever there to see it) from a spot on the moon Jan 31st 2018. Looks like there's never been a rover shot taken from the moon though.
edited 22nd Aug '17 3:44:09 AM by carbon-mantis
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That's called a lunar eclipse, bro. On Earth, it looks like the full moon going dark because Earth is getting between the moon and the sun. On the moon, it would look like the sun going dark because Earth is getting in front of it.
Personally what I'd like to see is a terrestrial solar eclipse; get far enough from Earth that it's the same apparent size as the Sun and positioned so that the Earth is between you and the Sun.
I imagine the sunlight diffraction through the atmosphere coupled with the lights on the Earth (and potentially the Sun's Corona if the atmospheric diffraction doesn't overwhwlm it) would be an amazing sight.
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Jaustin: That sounds like it would indeed be an amazing sight.
edited 2nd Sep '17 1:47:18 PM by TuefelHundenIV
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Big Asteroid to Give Us One Very Close Shave
Teams of scientists from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) that monitor the locations of near-Earth objects have been tracking asteroid 2012 TC 4 with various instruments, including the ESA's Very Large Telescope Observatory. Those observations have made it possible to better predict when the asteroid will make its flyby of Earth, and just how close it will get to the planet. Observing close flybys like this also helps prepare teams to detect a near-Earth asteroid whose course might pose a threat to Earth.
2012 TC 4 will fly by Earth on Oct. 12 at a distance of about 27,000 miles (43,500 kilometers), or about one-eighth the distance to the moon. Previous observations suggested the space rock might come to within 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers), according to a statement from NASA. [Enormous Asteroid 'Florence' Will Safely Fly by Earth Sept. 1]
Scientists are interested in this asteroid not only because of its close approach, but also because of its size: The asteroid is between 30 and 100 feet (10 and 30 meters) across, or the same general size as the rock that exploded above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February 2013. NASA-funded astronomers from the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) — which was formed by a United Nations subcommittee — will be conducting additional observations of the asteroid in the weeks leading up to the flyby "as part of an exercise of the recovery, characterization and reporting of a potentially hazardous object approaching Earth," according to the news release.
"This is a team effort that involves more than a dozen observatories, universities and labs across the globe so we can collectively learn the strengths and limitations of our near-Earth object observation capabilities," said Vishnu Reddy of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, who leads the campaign to track and characterize 2012 TC 4 for the IAWN. "This effort will exercise the entire system, to include the initial and follow-up observations, precise orbit determination, and international communications." This story was originally published on Space.com.
Saturn's rings are relatively young, "only" 100M years old, according to recent Cassini findings.
Makes perfect sense to me, and it dashes the idea that the rings were formed at Saturn's birth 4.6B years ago.
Aren't rings like that formed by moons or asteroids or stuff getting too close to the planet and having the gravity of said planet tear them apart? Makes sense then that the rings would be younger than the actual planet.
I don't have special glasses to watch the eclipse, but I have found other methods.
It's weird how still it feels outside.
edited 21st Aug '17 11:18:19 AM by SatoshiBakura