Date For Your Diary

[+pieces_of_8]

Slightly off topic i know BUT the is a partial Solar Eclipes occurring in the UK on the 3rd of October starting at 07:48, at its max at 09:00, and ending at 10:17 (Times for Bedfordshire) the further you are NORTH the better it gets (N 17 58' E 24 47' being the BEST place to see it...that is quite away NORTH!!!...times slightly different here)

 

Mart

[+walkergeoff and wife]

Now, would that qualify as an Earthcache, or a Suncache? Or an Event cache, maybe?

[+jochta]

For southern England this is a 0.67 magnitude eclipse (67% of the diameter of the Sun eclipsed) and will look like (you won't see the black moon, this is just to illustrate the relative diameters and eclipse depth)...

 

 

The Sun will be quite low at maximum eclipse at around 21º above the horizon

 

Remember NEVER look at the Sun with the naked eye, use projection method with a telescope or binoculars, eclipse specs or a properly filtered telescope to view the eclipse.

Edited August 22, 2005 by jochta

[+stu_and_sarah]

N 17 58' E 24 47' being the BEST place to see it...that is quite away NORTH!!!

Did I miss something? N17 58' E24 47' is close to the Sudan/Chad border, south of Libya and has never in my experience been described as 'quite away north'. Did I accidentally click on the South Africa forum?

 

Cheers,

 

Stu

[+pieces_of_8]

Whoops having a crap attack I agree N17 is in fact NOT that far north....ignor me from this point on.....everybody else does.

 

Mart

[+Tupperware Hunters]

....ignor me from this point on.....everybody else does.

 

Mart

who seaid that