Solar Eclipse - Today 8 April
Discussion
No discussion so far so thought I'd open a thread. It won't be visble from my part of the UK but some PHers, if they live in the western part of Scotland, western England, Wales or Ireland might see it as a partial eclipse.
And if anybody is in Mexico and North America, you should see a total eclipse if you live under the path of totality.
And if anybody is in Mexico and North America, you should see a total eclipse if you live under the path of totality.
We get total solar eclipses on an 18 month to 2 year basis - so they aren't THAT rare. However, as the earth is 70% ocean and a large part of the land is still uninhabited by humans, most paths of totality do not pass over large poulation centres.
This particular one was unusual in that it covered a large swathe of populated Central and North America so totality would be seen by almost 50 million people (weather permitting).
I watched our "total eclipse" of 1999 from Union Street Aldershot. In North Hampshire we didn't get full totality - more like around 80% coverage.
The coverage for partial eclipses is a lot wider and I have seen quite a few of them over the years.
This particular one was unusual in that it covered a large swathe of populated Central and North America so totality would be seen by almost 50 million people (weather permitting).
I watched our "total eclipse" of 1999 from Union Street Aldershot. In North Hampshire we didn't get full totality - more like around 80% coverage.
The coverage for partial eclipses is a lot wider and I have seen quite a few of them over the years.
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