Get yer sun goggles ready.
Europe's largest solar eclipse since 1999 is set to block out as much as
On the 20 March at 9.31am London will lose as much as 84 per cent of its sunlight while parts of Scotland such as Edinburgh will be even darker with 94 per cent of the light blocked out.
Astronomers believe the eclipse will begin in London at 8.45am, it'll then reach its maximum eclipse at 9.31am with normal service being resumed at 10.41am.
That's an exaggeration:
blocking 90% of the sun will not block 90% of the light output
to save other's looking this up the only land mass that can see this totality is Svalbard,
tim
It's also Very old news.
and the Faroe Islands
94? Thought it was 87% (see below):
This is an most interesting website:
The next one after this for the UK will be 2026, Aug 12th at 93%
But whilst not a full eclipse, it should go unnervingly dark :)
And the Faroe Islands.
its almost worth the several £k for a holiday there, but the weather in march!!!?
I've been looking to do it for ages
but they price trips in Euro and when the pound crashed I thought I'd wait a bit
Now it's back up again I look at it this year
agreed
tim
Why?
Bill
'cos the sun's light output isn't at all affected by the moon?
If you have one, electric welding visor is ideal for viewing.
Damn. It'll cut back my FIT payment ;-)
So at what point on the Earth is it total then? Brian
That presumably is due to the fuzzy edge of the shadow. Its notoriously hard to predict this sort of thing as the sun is not a clearly defined orb, its ragged and variable in any case. When you get totality I seem to remember being told it is because the moon is actually a bit bigger than even the outer edges of the sun as viewed from earth. Its always intrigued me how such a situation could happen apparently by accident. Brian
Svalbard (Norway) and the Faroe Islands
Below the video on this link, is a map of the coverage:
But we see "logarithmically", and have automatic irises. The rate of change is not that fast, probably only similar to a very dark cloud?
ROFL
We can't accuse you of not having a good sense of humour!
:-)
Possibly - but I still expect it to feel weird.
It was very weird last time, I remember.
OT: How many people have read Asimov's "Nightfall"?
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