I fell into a ______ ____ __ ____...
Annular blazing rings of fire. Sounds very uncomfortable.
Very cool!! Thanks for posting!
Only during "total eclipses" can you look directly at the sun, and then, only during the totality part of it.
Annular eclipses can fool a lot of people into burning their eyes...
Viewing the Sun during partial and annular eclipses (and during total eclipses outside the brief period of totality) requires special eye protection, or indirect viewing methods, if eye damage is to be avoided. The Sun's disk can be viewed using appropriate filtration to block the harmful part of the Sun's radiation. Sunglasses do not make viewing the sun safe. Only properly designed and certified solar filters should ever be used for direct viewing of the Sun's disk.[42] Especially, self-made filters using common objects like a floppy disk removed from its case, a Compact Disc, a black colour slide film, etc. must be avoided despite what may have been said in the media.
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It is safe to observe the total phase of a solar eclipse directly with the unaided eye, binoculars or a telescope, when the Sun's photosphere is completely covered by the Moon. During this period the sun is too dim to be seen through filters. The Sun's faint corona will be visible, and the chromosphere, solar prominences, and possibly even a solar flare may be seen. However, viewing the Sun after totality can be dangerous.
the burning moon!
hmmm... should my skin be smoldering like this?
I understand Danny Glover said this was caused because of the failure in Copenhagen.
And in totally unrelated news two Hobbits and an Elf embarked on their journey to Washington DC this morning.
Dang, I'll miss it. Got an appointment somewhere around Eta Carinae right about then.
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring,
/mark
If it had been visible here in central Texas, it wouldn’t have been.
I once fell into a burning ring of fire. I went down down down and the flames went higher. And it burned burned burned, that ring of fire, that ring of fire.
I'll probably still have a garage full of Y3K supplies at that point.
“Longest” eclipse? Uh... what? how can one eclipse last longer than any of them? It’s not like the moon slows down sometimes...