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Partial Solar Eclipse today, 4th Jan.

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    jd007
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    Bit early for me.


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    greenmachine88
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    I's the 4th of January already, good lord


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


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


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    gbee
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    Did ye get any pics?

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


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


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    gbee
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    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.


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    cherryghost
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    Had a great view here myself


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    jackiebaron
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    cherryghost wrote: »
    Had a great view here myself


    :confused:


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    cherryghost
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    jackiebaron wrote: »
    :confused:

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


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