2015 March 20th Solar Eclipse

[Mokidugway]

Sky at night magazine has them with it ..

[Winter Warmer]

http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/coming-solar-eclipse-seen-as-judgment/

 

 

Be afraid everyone Judgment day is coming   

[Daniel*]

Forecast made me shrivel.

[Weather-history]

Thinking of the solar eclipses that I have seen or caught glimpses of

1994: no

1996: yes

1999: yes

2003: yes

2005: no

2006: yes

2008: yes

2011: no

2015:?

[Mokidugway]

Cloud for me .....sorry ....

Edited March 19, 2015 by Mokidugway

[Allseasons-Si]

everyone head to the midlands

 

i was in Liverpool in 1999 or 96 cannot remember exactly and viewed it through hazy/partly cloudy sky's without solar glasses.

[stewfox]

Thinking of the solar eclipses that I have seen or caught glimpses of

1994: no

1996: yes

1999: yes

2003: yes

2005: no

2006: yes

2008: yes

2011: no

2015:?

 

Apart from 1999 when i have had proper solar glasses i have always used colour/black and white -ve photo strips. Probably rather stupid thing to do. 5 of them one over the other does the trick. My current contract at a office with no windows , I'm going out for extended break. Will be near Rugby

Edited March 19, 2015 by stewfox

[Winter Cold]

Cant wait for tomorrow morning. So exciting isnt it! Looks like myself in Yorkshire could do OK for this! I really hope everyone gets some cloud breaks though and is able to view

 

Ive been all over looking for glasses and it seems no shop in Sheffield has decided to cash in on this lol, so I hope the newspaper freebies are true in the morning!!

 

Just watching Stargazing Live, good stuff!   

[4wd]

There is a two hour window here when sunny intervals are predicted, unfortunately it has moved from 8:00 until 10:00 to 11:00 till 13:00 this evening!
Cloud is shown as white before that so there will very likely be some glimpses, and timings might shift slightly again yet.

[Weather-history]

How about this for a total eclipse for the British Isles, look how much is in the totality path...shame it won't be until 5th May 2600!

Good luck to anyone alive to see it, they won't be born yet for at least 500 years!

[Paul]

10 things to know about the eclipse tomorrow

 

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=news;storyid=6528;sess=

[Mokidugway]

How about this for a total eclipse for the British Isles, look how much is in the totality path...shame it won't be until 5th May 2600!

Good luck to anyone alive to see it, they won't be born yet for at least 500 years!

something like this by then I would imagine ....

[Daniel*]

http://youtu.be/eOvWioz4PoQ

^ Give this a watch to get you in the spirit.

[weatherobsuk]

D3100 and the S1730 both charged and ready. Using a UV filter on the D3100 for direct photography of the Sun as it's a common myth that the Sun burns out the lens, it certainly would do on old-film cameras but modern DSLR/SLR technology is designed to withstand this in mind. Take for example all the thousands of pictures taken out there of sunsets and sunrises with no problem whatsoever. 

The s1730 will be facing north to capture anything of the shadow moving left to right, with a 60min recording time i'm hoping to get something from this visually noticeable. 

 

finally I got the trusty Eclipse glasses ordered from 2 weeks ago, along with a improvised pin-hole paper and card. Fingers crossed for the weather now.

[Snowyowl9]

I just found my 1999 approved solar viewer.

I thought there was two but maybe not.

Whats this so called supermoon,that's what this is again.

Never heard these strange things years ago.

Edited March 19, 2015 by Snowyowl9

[Allseasons-Si]

I just found my 1999 approved solar viewer.

I thought there was two but maybe not.

Whats this so called supermoon,that's what this is again.

Never heard these strange things years ago.

 

Tried to find out some links as to how far the moon is from earth,i think it is a lot closer at present Snowy so the moon looks bigger,plus the earth is still tilted away from the sun at this time of the year

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance_%28astronomy%29

 

http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/lunar-perigee-apogee.html

 

live http://time.unitarium.com/moon/where.html

 

i will try and find more links,prob tomorrow now as i am shattered,was up @ 5am.

 

Edit:closer than the normal,check this link then go to the live^

 

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Display=Facts&Object=Moon

Edited March 19, 2015 by Allseasons-si

[Mapantz]

It's a new moon but closer than average. They still call it (or some do) a supermoon, even though we cannot see the lit side.

Lucky we don't have LP in charge, or something like last Winters storms? It would have caused alot of problems at high tide!

Edited March 20, 2015 by Mapantz

[Polar Maritime]

If it stops like this i shall be happy..

[Nick L]

Overcast as overcast can be here in Wendover, and the cloud ain't going anywhere fast it seems.

[cheese]

Good breaks here.. sun is currently shining.

[James M]

Some misty low cloud but there is bluesy so I'm hopeful.

[weatherobsuk]

Vis satellite at 08:20, i've drawn in the best places for viewing over the next few hours, with the high cloud to the north starting to dissipate ahead of the front as the high-ridge tries to nudge it's way ahead of the front. Overcast skies here starting to thin and break already, with the front not due to start coming over until 11.30.

 

[Winter Cold]

Overcast in Sheffield    not what I was expecting. Fingers crossed it breaks up a bit!

[Weather-history]

30 minutes to first contact in Manchester!

And it's clouding over!

Had some spells of sunshine but as we are getting to close the eclipse the cloud to the north is encroaching all the time.

Looks good for much of Wales.

[A.J]

Go away pesky cloud!

 

sat24 does show cloud now thinning here in the west country, but will it thin enough?.......uniform grey still outside