Solar Eclipse watching..

[Reynard]

that will be so cool to see as it should last for months, but they keep changing their minds on the dimming theyve recorded. so who knows

Apparently they've recently discovered that Betelgeuse has a companion star orbiting it, which takes into account some of the periodic dimming that's been observed.

 

[swee'pea99]

'er indores read somewhere that you could get a good result by taking a hole-puncher to bit of paper...

Worked out quite well I thought.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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Spain has another one next year aparently

And they have just won the World Cup! Talk about lucky!🧐

 

[Dogtrousers]

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And they have just won the World Cup! Talk about lucky!🧐

Luck has nothing to do with it. Infantino arranged it for them. Know wot I mean

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Southern Spain has, but its like literally Gibraltar & Malaga at best then passes through North Africa and the Middle East.

Yeah, it's been said up - thread.

I might go.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I saw the partials in 1999 and 2015, so this was my first 'miss'.

 

[Fastpedaller]

It wasn't broadcast (as far as I know), but a pair of binoculars can be used to project the sun onto a screen. We learnt this at school as a study into sunspots. Probably (understandably) not 'encouraged' in case people looked through the binoculars. Here's my result below. It would have been better with a tripod and if I wasn't using one hand for the binoculars and the other using the mobile phone to take the photo

 

[CarbonClem]

Cracked out my 1999 OG glasses

 

[Profpointy]

 

[Profpointy]

And just in case anyone needs to understand the mechanism, here is an illustration showing the different types of eclipse

 

[MontyVeda]

Lytham St Anne's News report from FB...

LYTHAM LOCALS LEFT FUMING AFTER ‘APPALLING’ ECLIPSE FAILS TO DELIVER​

Excitement quickly turned to bitter disappointment on Lytham Green as locals gathered in their numbers to witness the much-anticipated eclipse — only to be left wondering what all the fuss was about.​

Josephine, described as a senior, high-ranking member of the Lytham social hierarchy, had invested heavily in the occasion, purchasing special eclipse glasses for the entire family.​

She said:​

“I’ve spent over £69 on glasses for myself, my husband and the children, and it was so disappointing. It hardly even went dark.​

We felt like total pillocks stood on the Green with everyone else, all wearing our glasses and staring up at the sky waiting for something spectacular to happen.”​

With expectations sky-high, some locals had anticipated Lytham being plunged into dramatic darkness.​

Instead, the general verdict from the Green was considerably less astronomical: £69 down and an overwhelming sense of being made to look rather silly.​

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Lytham St Anne's News report from FB...

LYTHAM LOCALS LEFT FUMING AFTER ‘APPALLING’ ECLIPSE FAILS TO DELIVER​

Excitement quickly turned to bitter disappointment on Lytham Green as locals gathered in their numbers to witness the much-anticipated eclipse — only to be left wondering what all the fuss was about.​

Josephine, described as a senior, high-ranking member of the Lytham social hierarchy, had invested heavily in the occasion, purchasing special eclipse glasses for the entire family.​

She said:​

“I’ve spent over £69 on glasses for myself, my husband and the children, and it was so disappointing. It hardly even went dark.​

We felt like total pillocks stood on the Green with everyone else, all wearing our glasses and staring up at the sky waiting for something spectacular to happen.”​

With expectations sky-high, some locals had anticipated Lytham being plunged into dramatic darkness.​

Instead, the general verdict from the Green was considerably less astronomical: £69 down and an overwhelming sense of being made to look rather silly.​

No surprise there, we are 60 miles north of LSA and the 'big event' was pitiful.

The sky simply went a flat mid-grey in colour. Even the birds just carried on tweeting & flying.

Nothing like 1999.

Massively over-hyped by the media, as is common with so many News items these days.

 

[MontyVeda]

No surprise there, we are 60 miles north of LSA and the 'big event' was pitiful.

The sky simply went a flat mid-grey in colour. Even the birds just carried on tweeting & flying.

Nothing like 1999.

Massively over-hyped by the media, as is common with so many News items these days.

Having witnessed three total eclipses, I knew the sky wouldn't really dim on a 91% partial, but the thin bank of cloud over Morecambe Bay gave the illusion of dimming, and nicely filtered the sun for a few moments here and there so the eclipse glasses weren't always needed. Nice atmosphere up on priory hill though

 

[Dogtrousers]

It wasn't broadcast (as far as I know), but a pair of binoculars can be used to project the sun onto a screen. We learnt this at school as a study into sunspots. Probably (understandably) not 'encouraged' in case people looked through the binoculars. Here's my result below. It would have been better with a tripod and if I wasn't using one hand for the binoculars and the other using the mobile phone to take the photo

For the 99 eclipse I made a rig with binocs mounted on it and a sheet of paper in the right place. The result was really good, with sunspots clearly visible. After all that effort, the eclipse was hidden by clouds.

This time round I did as you did and hand held them

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Apparently they've recently discovered that Betelgeuse has a companion star orbiting it, which takes into account some of the periodic dimming that's been observed.

Named Siwarha

https://www.nasa.gov/science-resear...finds-predicted-companion-star-to-betelgeuse/