Partial Solar Eclipse today, 4th Jan.

af_thefragile

If anyone's interested.

You can view it from sunrise at 8:37am onwards.

If you've got an anorak, you can join a bunch of other sky watchers at Howth Summit carpark tomorrow at 8:15am to view the spectacle!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0103/breaking20.html
(I think irishtimes got that 9:26pm time wrong. It can't be that! Must be am...)

And if you're a bit of a geek, more info here:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html

jd007

Bit early for me.

greenmachine88

I's the 4th of January already, good lord

ScumLord

I saw a total eclipse, of the sky. You and your partial eclipses. :mad:

kfallon

There was a full eclipse of the moon this morning when I pulled me kaks up

gbee

Did ye get any pics?

Fog in my location and cloud. According to Stellarium the even has just ended.

dr ro

you can't actually look at the sun in an eclipse can you? unless you want to commit visual suicide.

gbee

dr ro wrote: »

you can't actually look at the sun in an eclipse can you? unless you want to commit visual suicide.

There are a few tricks, a dark filter like a welders screen. Projection from a telescope where the instrument looks at the sun but the viewer looks at the image projection on a card behind the eyepiece.

The sun in this event would be low and possibly still shrouded somewhat with haze, fog cloud ~ but yes essentially you can't look at the sun directly.

cherryghost

Had a great view here myself

jackiebaron

cherryghost wrote: »

Had a great view here myself

cherryghost

jackiebaron wrote: »

There was cloud. Can't see anything from the naked eye. I'm disappointed, as usual