March 20th 2015, partial eclipse of the sun

Brian G Turner

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On March 20th of this year we'll experience a partial eclipse over Britain, with those in the north getting the fullest experience - though you'd need to be in the Faroe Islands for a total eclipse.

Something to look forward to - especially as Britain won't experience a solar eclipse again until 2090.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...ill-plunge-Britain-into-morning-twilight.html
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2015Mar20Tgoogle.html
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2015-march-20
 
I remember the one we had about a decade and a half ago. I was on holiday with the parents on Anglesey. It was quite eerie.
 
I was in deepest, darkest Cornwall (St Austell) for the 1999 eclipse, it was an amazing experience. The fact that it was quite cloudy made it even more so, since approaching totality you could actually see the shadow closing. Somewhere, I've got the photos - I'll try to find them and link to them here.
 
Above St Austell:



People gather:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/StAustell1_zpskpjbiwsc.jpg']
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/StAustell2_zpso5xouda8.jpg']

It was dark:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/StAustell2_zpso5xouda8.jpg']
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/StAustell3_zpsuvsocjwx.jpg']

Eclipse 1:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/StAustell3_zpsuvsocjwx.jpg']
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/Eclipse1_zpssecgj6ar.jpg']

Eclipse 2:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/Eclipse1_zpssecgj6ar.jpg']
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/Eclipse2_zpsvxeu2cp0.jpg']

Eclipse 3:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/Eclipse2_zpsvxeu2cp0.jpg']
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/stevepalmer62/Eclipse3_zps7i37do7i.jpg']
 
Completely overcast and drizzly here. Not much hope for change, but we were only going to get 65% anyway.

I saw the 100% one here in 1999 on the banks of the Rhone though which was very impressive.
 
View here at the moment
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AnyaKimlin said:
Are you getting anything Brian? Is it worth me trying to go West a bit? Because here it is colour block grey.
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I can see breaks of sunlight to the north, on the hills of Sutherland. If that holds, then anyone north of Helmsdale might have a chance to see it. Every other direction I look is cloud and drizzly haze.
 
Brian Turner said:
I can see breaks of sunlight to the north, on the hills of Sutherland. If that holds, then anyone north of Helmsdale might have a chance to see it. Every other direction I look is cloud and drizzly haze.
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We're getting some breaks in Kinloss right now but not enough to see anything I only asked because they were in your direction.
 
This is why the south-east is the economic powerhouse of Britain -- we've engineered a covering of impenetrable grey gloom so we won't be distracted from our work by such frivolity.
 
It's much the same here in France, HareBrain.
Although here it's only so we don't get distracted from our game of boules.
 
I am working, damned hard.

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