Posted on 06/10/2002 1:08:13 PM PDT by let freedom sing
99 Percent Of Sun To Be Obscured In Some Places
A dazzling solar eclipse will be on display across the western part of the globe Monday night.
Forecasters say as much as 99 percent of the sun will be obscured by the moon in parts of Canada, Mexico and Asia.
One of the best viewing areas in the United States will be in San Diego, where as much as three-fourths of the sun will be hidden.
Other sections of the country will get a less dramatic sight.
In Chicago, only one-fifth of the sun's surface will be blocked.
The Eastern Seaboard will miss the eclipse entirely because it'll occur after sunset there. The next eclipse that'll be visible from the United States will be in 2005.
A dazzling solar eclipse will be on display across the western part of the globe Monday night.
100% of sun blocked by rest of earth tonight in Ohio.
Sun not expected to be seen again until tomorrow morning.
NIGHT? Maybe late afternoon. Maybe early evening. But night is when the sun is down.
The author should go back to "Missing cat found in tree" articles.
from "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
by Lewis Caroll,
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I guess Ted Kennedy is going to stand up next to Hillary. .... They do cast a wide shadow.
Bad wording on the writer’s part... A Solar Eclipse to be seen at NIGHT!
...Not likely...that sounds like a bad Polish joke
The Solar Eclipse will be starting late in the day for the US .. and the sun will set for part of the east coast while eclipsed..
Findings of the Texas A&M Observatory.
Two pieces of cardboard (shirtboards will do)
Punch a pinhole into the centre of one
Stand with your back to the sun.
Use the cardboard with the pinhole as a lense to focus an image of the sun onto the other piece of cardboard,
Prop up the cardboard that will be your screen so that it is perpendicular to the line of sight to the sun.
Hold the other card (the one with the pinhole between the screen and the sun so that it shades the screen and is separated from the screen by about a metre.
The pinhole will cause an impage of the sun to be projected on to the screen.
This is a primitive camera obscura.
DO NOT USE sunglasses, smoked glass or exposed film.
If using a Newtonian Telescope, choke down the aperture and use the lense to project the image onto a screen. Do not look into the lense.
I am sorry to hear that.
I wish that the papers and journals that write stories about a coming eclipse would also print warnings about eye damage and print advice on making a pinhole viewer.
Glad to hear it!
But I still think that some simple cautions and instructions printed with any story about an impending eclipse will save some eyes.
Every eclipse, someone suffers eye damage.
In Africa last year, opportunists were selling cheap disposable filters, effectively not much better than sunglasses, for people to use to watch an eclipse.
The media was not warning people.
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