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Total Solar Eclipse & Super-Moon on March 20. Safe & Unsafe Methods to view the Celestial Dance
nsnbc international ^ | March 14, 2015 | knarf

Posted on 03/13/2015 9:16:24 PM PDT by knarf

I got this heads-up in an e-mail


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: solareclipse
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I always miss them or they're at a bad time or ...

good advice

1 posted on 03/13/2015 9:16:24 PM PDT by knarf
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Title and story misleading ... not visable here ... sorry


2 posted on 03/13/2015 9:23:22 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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Looking at the chart in the article, it appears to me that we're shut out here in North America. Please tell me if I'm wrong - the last time I saw a total Solar eclipse was over a half-century ago..


"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre / mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
"Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener, mind must be the greater, as our might lessens."

3 posted on 03/13/2015 9:28:11 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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4 posted on 03/13/2015 9:33:04 PM PDT by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: knarf
Wait a couple years:


5 posted on 03/13/2015 9:41:18 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion
Looks like I need to make reservations somewhere between Myrtle Beach and St. Simon's Island for late August 2017.


"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre / mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
"Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener, mind must be the greater, as our might lessens."

6 posted on 03/13/2015 9:51:55 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: knarf

in 2000 or so there was a total eclipse near the Caribbean i planned a trip on a sail boat to be in meniscus. on the ocean you can see them coming and going. didn’t pan out. i would try to do that trip again


7 posted on 03/13/2015 9:54:19 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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Yeah ... me too ... it was in Boston and I remember going to a hilltop to see it and I was maybe 8 or 10 years old

I remember not looking at the sky like a lot of the adults were, but being mesmerized by the color of our clothing and how it had changed ... not like black light, but another spectrum that just fascinated me.

In a few minutes me and my little brother left to go to school ... I remember it being in the morning

8 posted on 03/13/2015 10:07:41 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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The last time I saw a total Solar eclipse was over a half-century ago.

Well, if you can live a couple more years, the next total solar eclipse to hit the US will be in late summer 2017. Should be a good one as it will cut a swath across the entire country.

9 posted on 03/13/2015 10:31:14 PM PDT by PallMal
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This one ends its totality at the North Pole on the Spring Equinox.

For those unfamiliar with science, that’s, like, major voodoo, dude.


10 posted on 03/13/2015 10:31:33 PM PDT by Talisker (ne who commands, must obey.)
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whoa !


11 posted on 03/13/2015 10:33:11 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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The last Solar eclipse (partial) I can recall seeing was in the mid 90's - occurred around midday on the east coast. Nothing to write home about, but it was strange walking down the street at 11:00 a.m. in twilight. The birds were making a racket setting in for the evening - and of course we were back to full light shortly after noon. IIRC, that eclipse occurred in April - an April where we had a series of 100 degree days. Maybe that's where Algore got the idea.


"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre / mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
"Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener, mind must be the greater, as our might lessens."

12 posted on 03/13/2015 10:36:05 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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You can look directly at the un-eclipsed Sun with no eye protection.

I do not know why looking at an eclipse would be any less safe.


13 posted on 03/13/2015 10:37:56 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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Your retinas must be like swiss cheese.


14 posted on 03/13/2015 10:51:32 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Sure, Clark Kent.


15 posted on 03/13/2015 10:53:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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You can look directly at the un-eclipsed Sun with no eye protection. I do not know why looking at an eclipse would be any less safe. Basically, because you can't.

Solar retinopathy is usually reversible, but I wouldn't bet my own eyesight on it.

16 posted on 03/13/2015 10:56:49 PM PDT by FredZarguna (O, Reason not the need.)
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"This one ends its totality at the North Pole on the Spring Equinox."

The eclipse occurs as the Sun rises at the north pole for the first time in six months.

It is also the Hebrew ecclesiastical new year's day -- the first day of the year on the calendar given to Moses. And it is in between the 2nd and 3rd of the Four Blood Moons (Four lunar eclipses on sequential Passovers & Feast of Tabernacles). We are in the middle of the 8th set of four blood moons since 1 A.D.

Prior thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3262960/posts

17 posted on 03/13/2015 11:09:52 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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I wonder if the number 8 means anything Biblicly/supernaturally.


18 posted on 03/14/2015 1:34:02 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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Of all the eclipses visible from my area, about 80% where themselves eclipsed by cloudy weather.
Or so it seems.

19 posted on 03/14/2015 4:20:39 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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I remember a partial eclipse in 1984; there were hundreds of solar crescents on the ground beneath a tree where aphids had left pinholes in the leaves.

Glad I took photos.


20 posted on 03/14/2015 5:56:33 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel. My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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