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Solar eclipse over NW Europe this Friday

Oystein

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Who is going to take a peak at tomorrow's solar eclipse?

Best viewing north of the British isles, but northern Germany is going to get 80% coverage of the sun.

I built me a camera obscura from a slender cardboard box (2m long, perhaps 18x18 cm wide). Also got my SLR on a tripod with an 80% grey filter, ISO 200, will try f32 and 1/3200 s exposure time. Will post photos. Who else?

Here's a tool for you to find out beginning, max and end of the eclipse in your location (Universal Time, not local time!): http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2015Mar20Tgoogle.html
Just zoom into the map and click to set a marker on your position.
 
Here in Oxfordshire, we'll be getting around 85% coverage at 9.30am. I will be at work, but I'll pop outside to watch for as long as I can get away with.
 
Eclipse has begun NOW where I am - but above an overcast sky that doesn't look as if clouds are going to melt very soon :(
 
yes, extremely cloudy here too :(

It's an astronomical triple whammy today! Solar Eclipse, Spring Equinox, and Super Moon!
 
Sunny but a bit hazy here in Wales :)

Can't wait

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Not sure what our ancient Silurian ancestors would have found more remarkable, the sun being eaten by, and spat out by a dragon or it not actually raining here in March :p
 
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Sun is just about out here. Have the binocs are set up, and a piece paper on a clip board ready.

The clouds are thin but patchy, so fingers crossed.
 
Danish television are running a 3 hour special this morning from the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen. Two reasonably well informed hosts and an astrophysicist answering questions from the public.

Total cloud coverage here, so I'll settle for watching the TV coverage.

Edit: BBC are streaming Stargazing Live for another half hour: http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-31906556
 
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Screencaps from Thorshavn, Faroe Isles:
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local roosters are getting confused ...

Can definitely see a crescent shaped sun through the clouds. pretty cool.
 
Cloud cover rendered binocs useless by 9.30, but the welding shields were good.
 
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local roosters are getting confused ...

Can definitely see a crescent shaped sun through the clouds. pretty cool.
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Like that in Dublin also, though the cloud does reduce the risk from actually staring at the sun.
Quite pretty.
 
Thick cloud in my part of Derbyshire. I went out equipped with colander and cardboard, but it just got a bit duller and the birds got even more noisy. I couldn't see the sun or moon at all, so in the end I came inside and watched Prof Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain on the TV.
 
Sunny in North Wales (what?), so good view through the special filters. I was lucky in 1999 to be in Northern France, so saw the total eclipse then, which really was an eerie feeling.
 
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