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Forecast for Brizzle tomorrow is clouds and sunshine, so might just be lucky enough to catch the eclipse between the murk. I reckon I'll take dd and the dog up to Brandon Hill where there's a reasonable view. Anybody else planning to catch it?
[b]DON'T LOOK AT THE SUN !!!!!!![/b]
I've got some sunglasses. 😀
EDIT: and so does dd.
Anybody else planning to catch it?
I'll take a pause from my ride to work to use my kitchen-roll tube eclipse viewer somewhere by the side of scotswood road
Looking good for here in the Brecon Beacons. One of the few holes in the cloud it looks like 🙂
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I've got some sunglasses.
I do hope you're joking, but just in case; sunglasses aren't sufficient.
I'll be in a plane on final descent to Heathrow. Window seat booked, might be an interesting viewpoint.
Ah no, I'll be alroight...it's only a bit of sun. 🙂
Yarp, WFH on the coast tomorrow so we've planned an early walk in Chichester Harbour, weather looks good for a view or two..
We'll not be using sunglasses, we will rely on shadows and such.
I've made a pinhole lens, although I reckon at a push 3 pairs of sunglasses would be okay!
Should be a good percentage of totality up here in Glasgow if we can actually see the sun
Anybody else planning to catch it?
If outside in the UK, a bit hard to avoid really 😉
If outside in the UK, a bit hard to avoid really
🙄
Binoculars, cereal box and a bit of tape. I'm all set for tomorrow. When it will no doubt be too couldy.
If outside in the UK, a bit hard to avoid really
Cloud cover permitting.
This is probably a stupid question, but if there is cloud cover, will it still go dark?
I'm assuming yes, but guessing that scatter from the clouds will reduce the affect?
Geoff - it should still darken up you just won't see the Sun getting covered.
Have spent all week pushing and preparing at school for this - telescope ready, students poised etc - only for loads of cloud to roll in and probably ruin it all.
Ace!
telescope ready
Hydrogen Alpha?
My contact lenses have UV protection, so I'll be ok.
I've got my binocs ready.
This is probably a stupid question, but if there is cloud cover, will it still go dark?
I'm assuming yes, but guessing that scatter from the clouds will reduce the affect?
saw the 1999 one in plymouth under cloud cover, still quite spooky. gets dark real quick. birds get spooked and think its time to roost.
"People say he fried his brain one day just staring at the sun. Course, he couldn't have been too smart to do that in the first place"
How about welding glasses? I can't see **** all with those on, I think the lenses are made of lead
All these warnings aboout not looking directly at the sun, I presume that during the eclipse the looking at the sun is no more dangerous than looking at the sun on any other day?
The news report I saw the other suggested that event the merest glance in the direction of the sun during the eclipse would result in instantaneous blindness.
I might risk my camera and I have several filters - inc a 10 stop NDF which I think should be enough.
If not I have some others I can stack on.
I'm booked in for laser eye surgery in a month, I might just take matters into my own hands
All these warnings aboout not looking directly at the sun, I presume that during the eclipse the looking at the sun is no more dangerous than looking at the sun on any other day?
I think (something I've heard so might not be right) that it's something to do with the concentration and the brightness of the flare coming from the parts of the Sun left as the Moon starts to cover it. It's brighter than the Sun usually would be so has more potential to cause damage.
Welding glasses are fine, or proper eclipse viewing glasses. A pinhole-focussed image is probably the easiest way to view it.
Have spent all week pushing and preparing at school for this - telescope ready, students poised etc - only for loads of cloud to roll in and probably ruin it all.
We've done the same; bought in loads of glasses and a solarviewer; and organised staff to bring in their own telescopes. There's three hours of cloud forecast for tomorrow, smack bang over the eclipse time.
For viewing.. I'm thinking of a cardboard tube, with a piece of paper over each end. A small hole (smaller than 4mm?) in one piece, the end nearest the sun, and view it on the other end (assuming I can get tracing paper, baking sheet etc). Does the length of the tube need to be tuneable (for focus)?
All these warnings aboout not looking directly at the sun, I presume that during the eclipse the looking at the sun is no more dangerous than looking at the sun on any other day?
Correct
Looking directly at the sun is a bad idea whether there is an eclipse or not. The eclipse doesn't make it any more or less dangerous (unless its a total eclipse in which case you can view the corona with the naked eye) but an eclipse does make it more likely that you'll stand outside and stare at the sun
Does the length of the tube need to be tuneable (for focus)
Nope, you'll just change the size of the projected image. The size of the hole depends on the length of the tube.
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Nope, you'll just change the size of the projected image. The size of the hole depends on the length of the tube.Is there a calculator?Does the length of the tube need to be tuneable (for focus)
I shall rummage around for my welding mask.
Sorry to be a killjoy but the difference between a partial and total eclipse is huge. IMO it's really amazing how much light a tiny sliver of the sun can still produce. Was fortunate to witness the last full eclipse on a boat 10 miles out into the channel and it wasn't until the totality that it got "dark", very ery and a very cool thing to have witnessed. I can see why people chase these around the world.
Is there a calculator?
Nope, I don't think so - possibly because I had that bit wrong in my head. Just poke a hole with a tack. If it's too big you'll just get a blurrier image. The usual recommendation is to use tinfoil for the front end.
I went to a local welding supplies shop this morning and got a couple of number 14 (as recommended by NASA) replacement glass panels for a pound a pop. The guy asked if I was eclipse watching.
[i]Looking directly at the sun is a bad idea whether there is an eclipse or not. The eclipse doesn't make it any more or less dangerous (unless its a total eclipse in which case you can view the corona with the naked eye) but an eclipse does make it more likely that you'll stand outside and stare at the sun
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That was kind of my thinking. I wouldn't generally look directly into the sun anyway, but I guess the overt H&S warnings are because an eclipse means you're more likely to spend a good chunk of time staring at the sun, than you would do otherwise.
I recall the last one (1999?) and it was very odd when the sun began to be covered. I can still see some 16 years later so it can't have been that dangerous 🙂
The last one I saw at lands end was, for a 12 year old boy, the greatest ever thing I've seen.
100's of camera flashes going off along the cliffs. Retrospectively it was all a bit Melancholia.
Will cycle up the Pentlands for the best view of the sky I can get.
OK - I'm hoping that a (Benromach) whisky bottle tube with a 2mm hole drilled in the end is going to do the trick 🙂
When I was a kid no one told me not to look at the sun. I used to try and see how long I could stare at it for...
If I can't find any welding glass tomorrow morning I might try two polarising filters and a UV.
I'm set to project onto a ceiling at work with a telescope
lets hope its clear some of the time
I've got a pair of eclipse 'glasses' from the last time, when I took a day off.
It was cloudy. 😐
Hopefully I'll be able to get out of work for ten minutes tomorrow, and if anyone else can come out, I've cut a bunch of strips about 3x8cm from some exposed film, which should work perfectly.
Well, two circular polarisers don't cut light out.
Lots of people outside Cardiff museum today, we went and watched it with the pinhole and I also borrowed someone's eclipse glasses to show the kids.
Coolest though was walking under the trees because the branches were enough to dim the sun and reveal the chunk taken out of it whilst still part of the landscape. Looked very freaky.
Welding helmet worked nicely 8)
I decided eye protection was for poofs. The best thing about looking at it with the naked eye is that it lasts longer, you can enjoy the afterimage too.
We had a flukey spell of lovely sunshine just before it went out, and a job to do that gave me an excuse to stand outside and watch, couldn't have been better.
We had just enough cloud cover that we could view it without lenses - it was just black when looking through the lenses.
A colleague shot a video:
That was the best start to a morning dh ride ever. After looking at it very briefly through some ****tish oakleys and a folded up Buff I had an eerie fly through the woods.
Cold.