The Eclipse

DesVegas

Will you be eclipsing ?? There's a webcam at Niagara Falls which should be pretty neat

DesVegas

7 hrs to go on this live stream 

YouTube @worldcamlive

stonevibe

No, I think it isn't as fun watching a stream of an eclipse. 

Dominic

Total eclipse of the heart

ICBM

There is no dark side of the Moon really.

ToneControl

ICBM said:

There is no dark side of the Moon really.

Matter of fact, it's all dark.

Philly_Q

Was there a solar eclipse visible from the UK about 25 years ago?  I remember it was cloudy over London that day so you couldn't really see much, it didn't go properly dark but it certainly got darker and the temperature dropped.  It was quite eerie.

roundthebend

Philly_Q said:

Was there a solar eclipse visible from the UK about 25 years ago?  I remember it was cloudy over London that day so you couldn't really see much, it didn't go properly dark but it certainly got darker and the temperature dropped.  It was quite eerie.

Yes. I recall it exactly as you do. Little bit duller and a slight temperature drop.

equalsql

Philly_Q said:

Was there a solar eclipse visible from the UK about 25 years ago?  I remember it was cloudy over London that day so you couldn't really see much, it didn't go properly dark but it certainly got darker and the temperature dropped.  It was quite eerie.

I remember that well, all the birds in the sky suddenly came down to sit on the rooftops. Iike a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds. Very eerie.

DesVegas

roundthebend said:

Philly_Q said:

Was there a solar eclipse visible from the UK about 25 years ago?  I remember it was cloudy over London that day so you couldn't really see much, it didn't go properly dark but it certainly got darker and the temperature dropped.  It was quite eerie.

Yes. I recall it exactly as you do. Little bit duller and a slight temperature drop.

Me dad bought home welding glass plates so we could all see it . I remember the shadows ripling like water waves

merlin

I went down to Cornwall to see it in all its glory. Abso-lucky-footling amazing. 

Brio

By wife phoned me to say how wierd it was in south Oxfordshire. I was in Southern Spain. We had nothing. Just tapas, beers and beaches. 
Oh well...

Timcito

I can understand astronomers and sky watchers getting excited over this, but everybody else? Meh ...

Shrews

Timcito said:

I can understand astronomers and sky watchers getting excited over this, but everybody else? Meh ...

Meh?

Don't you know it's the end of the world as we know it? 

Two hours and counting, we're all going to fry!!!





(just thought I'd try and make it a bit more exciting)

strumjoughlamps

'Totality' is today's word apparently.

merlin

Tintin was the dude who used the solar eclipse to save his, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus' life in Prisoners of the Sun. 

roundthebend

Shame they chose the USA to be the main venue for this event, the yanks really over hype stuff. To give them some credit though, they haven't shoved an advert break in.

CHRISB50

Timcito said:

I can understand astronomers and sky watchers getting excited over this, but everybody else? Meh ...

Aye. I don’t really understand the excitement either. 

I saw the one Phil mentioned around 20 years ago. It went dark for a bit. 

ICBM

merlin said:

I went down to Cornwall to see it in all its glory. Abso-lucky-footling amazing. 

You must have been in a luckier part of it than me... we went there too, and it was completely cloud covered. It did go dark, but it was something of a major disappointment, especially given how overcrowded it was. (I'm aware that we were part of the crowd!)

Shrews

I was at work, we all went outside, looked through special glasses that were free with a newspaper, then took them off because we couldn't see much.

It went dark for about 5 minutes

Then we all went back to work.

Vintage65

That's my next album cover sorted