Solar Eclipse Visible from Ireland - 20th March 2015

dacogawa

liamo wrote: »

A few shots from today's eclipse.

Great shots Liamo!

muskyj

Best eclipse......EVER!!!!!

PauloMN

liamo wrote: »

A few shots from today's eclipse.

Nice one. Have you a link to the home brew filter?

dacogawa

Some shots from Dublin between the clouds today

jfSDAS

Hi all,

Great photos and many thanks for sharing the images and experiences from around the country. Sorry I can't click on the Thank-You icon for all the posts.

If people have now been bitten by the astronomy bug then you might be interested in the calendar of celestial events for the rest of 2015 that we put together for IFAS. The calendar is a FREE pdf that can be downloaded from the link below. The images published in the originally sold version are not included as they are copyright of the photographers.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqg5otrcyrzwc44/astro_calendar_2015_final.pdf?dl=1

Thanks to everyone who purchased the calendar before January 31st, 2015, IFAS were able to plough the profit back into buying 1000 eclipse shades for distribution to boardsies, IFAS clubs, and the general public in advance of today's eclipse.

btw, there's been no mention yet, but Mercury transits the Sun next year and the event is visible from Ireland. However, Mercury is too small (only about 10 arc-seconds, or 1/180th the diameter of the Full Moon) to see with the unaided eye during the transit -- you'll need to use magnification to see it as a dark dot silhouetted against the Sun's disk.

Don't forget too, we'll have a total lunar eclipse on the morning of September 28th this year. This coincides with the closest (largest) Full Moon of 2015. Hopefully it won't be cloudy ... I can't remember the last time I saw a total lunar eclipse from Ireland where it was clear from start to finish!

John

endacl

B-b-b-but....

IFAS is an organisation that aims to foster an interest in astronomy in Ireland!!!

You mean, you just give stuff away?!? For free?!? How does that work? I bet yizzers are never on d'radio either!

:pac:

BorneTobyWilde

Does this Eclipse continue in a partial sense in coming days? Or is it just a one day event ?

Drakares

iPhone cam through Celestron SLT 130

jfSDAS

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Does this Eclipse continue in a partial sense in coming days? Or is it just a one day event ?

The eclipse was just today ... the Moon will have moved on in its orbit around the Earth and we'll see it appear as a gradually fattening crescent in the western sky over the next few evenings.

Interesting question though, as in a way an eclipse is where you see the Universe actually do something -- i.e., the Moon moving across the Sun's disk as during the event this morning.

jfSDAS

endacl wrote: »

I bet yizzers are never on d'radio either!

:pac:

Now, that sounds exactly like my Dad!

Still, we try to give the facts without the gloss

endacl

jfSDAS wrote: »

Now, that sounds exactly like my Dad!

Still, we try to give the facts without the gloss

Come off it. Seriously. You charge people to look up at the sky, at least?

liamo

PauloMN wrote: »

Nice one. Have you a link to the home brew filter?

If you put "Solar Filter" into YouTube you will get loads of results for DIY Solar Filter, Make your own Solar Filter, etc.

These are the two that I found most helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONgXeqhNr6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkxZV19Eu8

I got the Seymour solar filter paper from Ktec.

Having watched a number of YouTube videos it seems that the Seymour paper is easier to work with than the Baader paper. There also appears to be a religious war ongoing between proponents of each over which is better.

ZeRoY

My own efforts from Co.Monaghan, very lucky to get about 2mn of imaging time as clouds were thick!



Quick Timelapse so you can appreciate the amount of clouds we had!

coylemj

Contrary to what Will Goodbody and Peter Gallagher (TCD) are saying on RTE, the next partial solar eclipse visible from Ireland will be a 40% eclipse on June 10, 2021. An annular eclipse will be visible from Canada, the North Pole and NE Siberia .......

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2021Jun10A.GIF

If you really want to be exact, the Aug 21st 2017 total eclipse which sweeps through the mainland USA will end with a 10% partial eclipse at sunset in Ireland, just over two years away.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2017/TSE2017fig/TSE2017-1.gif

On the Six One news today.....

Bryan Dobson: It's 16 years since we had the last one, how long do we have to wait for the next one?

Peter Gallagher (TCD): 2026 we're going to get our next partial solar eclipse. Our next total solar eclipse is in 2600

2600 was probably a reference to the next total eclipse visible from Dublin, there will be a total solar eclipse visible in Kerry on Sept 23rd, 2090....

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2051/SE2090Sep23T.GIF

Kersh

We went to Rathbeggan Lakes, with Meath Astronomy Club.

Looked very gloomy, and toyed with the idea of driving south, but in the end it got too late, and we pretty much had to stay put.

Just past maximum, we got a break in the cloud, and could just about make it out behind the lighter cloud.

After, we get a few clear snatches here and there.

Here are 2 of the pics, taken with a Canon 1000D, through a Skywatcher 80ED DS Pro scope, with a Seymour Solar Full Glass Filter.

nomdeboardie

Going off on a tangent...now that I’ve got my eclipse glasses , is it possible to use them to see major sunspots and solar flares without magnification? (Please excuse my naivety if the answer is “Aaa ha ha ha!” )

EoghanIRL

A different view for you guys:

Kersh

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Going off on a tangent...now that I’ve got my eclipse glasses , is it possible to use them to see major sunspots and solar flares without magnification? (Please excuse my naivety if the answer is “Aaa ha ha ha!” )

Yes and no! You can, I could see the large sunspot group that's there at moment through eclipse glasses. Solar flares, no.

jfSDAS

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Going off on a tangent...now that I’ve got my eclipse glasses , is it possible to use them to see major sunspots and solar flares without magnification? (Please excuse my naivety if the answer is “Aaa ha ha ha!” )

Yes, the glasses will allow you see any big sunspots. They need to be about 2 1/2 to 3 Earth diameters to be visible to the unaided eye. Not too many spot-groups that size in the current solar cycle but there has been some. Check http://www.spaceweather.com fairly regularly as they'll highlight big groups and have a daily solar image (as well as info on other transient events).

Big spot groups are almost always very active and spawn numerous flares. If the group is on the centre of the Sun's disk then any flares will be earth-directed, maybe giving rise to an aurora display a couple of days later.

Prominences will not be seen with eclipse glasses though. They are actually faint and overwhelmed by the much brighter solar disk. Only during a total solar eclipse or in a specialised solar telescope will you see them.

John

Thargor

Kersh wrote: »

Yes and no! You can, I could see the large sunspot group that's there at moment through eclipse glasses. Solar flares, no.

jfSDAS wrote: »

Yes, the glasses will allow you see any big sunspots. They need to be about 2 1/2 to 3 Earth diameters to be visible to the unaided eye. Not too many spot-groups that size in the current solar cycle but there has been some. Check http://www.spaceweather.com fairly regularly as they'll highlight big groups and have a daily solar image (as well as info on other transient events).

Big spot groups are almost always very active and spawn numerous flares. If the group is on the centre of the Sun's disk then any flares will be earth-directed, maybe giving rise to an aurora display a couple of days later.

Prominences will not be seen with eclipse glasses though. They are actually faint and overwhelmed by the much brighter solar disk. Only during a total solar eclipse or in a specialised solar telescope will you see them.

John

I have an Astromaster 90 AZ Refractor, is there any filter I can buy or make to drop over that to view the corona and flares etc or do I need one of those $$$ solar scopes?

nomdeboardie

Thanks folks

jfSDAS wrote: »

... Prominences will not be seen with eclipse glasses though. They are actually faint and overwhelmed by the much brighter solar disk. Only during a total solar eclipse or in a specialised solar telescope will you see them.

John

As I feared (though hope on the sunspots front).
But I wonder what would happen if I could apply a precicely-sun-disc-obliterating fully opaque dot to each side of the glasses (or to one side, then look through one eye)...could I make my own total eclipse? :pac:
[previous disclaimer applies...naivity...derisive laughter]

endacl

Kersh wrote: »

Yes and no! You can, I could see the large sunspot group that's there at moment through eclipse glasses. Solar flares, no.

Well, if you do see a solar flare through them, start working through your bucket list. Quickly.

:eek:

nomdeboardie

endacl wrote: »

Well, if you do see a solar flare through them, start working through your bucket list. Quickly.

:eek:

Ah heeor now - nothing fatal about a bit of hallucinating (necessarily)

Patty O Furniture

ednwireland wrote: »

Could see the edge of the sun through the clouds up in donegal (ok I'm not supposed to look but it was through cloud)

Sadly i couldn't see any sun & tbh i didn't see it any difference at all as very cloudy:( as was looking out the window (from a distance of course, as i've heard it can affect retinal areas looking directly)

Was watching most of the programmes on BBC2 leading up to it, as would be watching it for the 1st time, a bit of a letdown when trying to see it.

Had a look on youtube to see if there was any in the NW better than where i was, saw this timelapse video

fryup wrote: »

wasn't that dark was it:( just dull

when will we have a 100% total eclipse in ireland??

Was watching skynews coverage, Faroe Islands had only a brief glimpse as it was mostly cloudy & sounds like Brian Cox didn't fare much better acc to his twitter page!

Someone posted a link earlier to timeanddate.com a while ago, interesting site, here is all the different types of eclipses coming up, hope it's handy, as only new to this, maybe a better site going?

Here's one of the sites with more info from lmgtfy, someone kindly posted :rolleyes:

Patty O Furniture

jfSDAS wrote: »

Yes, the glasses will allow you see any big sunspots. They need to be about 2 1/2 to 3 Earth diameters to be visible to the unaided eye. Not too many spot-groups that size in the current solar cycle but there has been some. Check http://www.spaceweather.com fairly regularly as they'll highlight big groups and have a daily solar image (as well as info on other transient events).

Big spot groups are almost always very active and spawn numerous flares. If the group is on the centre of the Sun's disk then any flares will be earth-directed, maybe giving rise to an aurora display a couple of days later.

Prominences will not be seen with eclipse glasses though. They are actually faint and overwhelmed by the much brighter solar disk. Only during a total solar eclipse or in a specialised solar telescope will you see them.

John

I was looking at that site & noticed this:

spaceweather.jpg






Good thing i got it early

endacl

If only it'd happened 24 hours later...

muskyj

Was on the prom in Galway with the Galway Astronomy Club and a large number of the general public. had clear skies for practically all of it looking across Galway bay. Can't remember the last time the weather Gods were this kind to me anyway! as it was cloudy just before the event and clouds rolled in right at the very end. it was a party atmosphere and such amazing views. loved it. Thanks to GAC for setting up the scopes/sun projectors etc.

Calibos

Just the right amount of cloud in Bray 30 seconds here 30 seconds there throughout the eclipse. With just the right thickness of cloud the eclipse was visible naked eye, too thick cloud and nothing visible obviously, too little cloud and it was too bright to view naked eye through the cloud but too dim to view through the eclipse glasses.

Harry Palmr

Blazing sun this morning

Taylor365

Nah, i prefer what i saw yesterday than today.

Today i would have just seen a glaring sun, no eclipse at all as be to bright to look at. Yesterday, i saw everything thanks to some cloud coverage