'Ring of fire' headed to northern UK – a partial solar eclipse, not the sensation you get after a potent vindaloo
(2021/06/10)
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Dust off your funky eclipse sunglasses and your homemade pinhole projector – a partial solar eclipse is set to cast a blurry shadow across parts of the UK on Thursday.
The partial eclipse – best viewed by those in the north of the Britain – starts at 10:08 BST, 10 June, peaking at 11:13 before finally ending at 12:22.
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[3]Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses
Science teachers up and down the nation were this week keen to tell to excitable stargazers young and old alike not to look directly at the Sun. Nor was this an excuse to skip school or work and hang around outside all morning waiting for something to happen.
Boffins at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich were more interested in the "science" behind the "annular eclipse", during which the outer ring of the sun should still be visible.
"This is sometimes known as a 'ring of fire'."
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Readers in parts of Russia, Greenland, and northern Canada should be able to see the full annular solar eclipse – weather permitting.
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A partial eclipse will be visible in the UK, Northern Asia, Europe, and the US.
Alternatively, you can [6]livestream the whole show via the Royal Observatory's latest Annie Maunder Astrographic Telescope. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/02/mars_express/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/sextuple_star_system/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/05/insight_mars_eclipse/
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The partial eclipse – best viewed by those in the north of the Britain – starts at 10:08 BST, 10 June, peaking at 11:13 before finally ending at 12:22.
[1]Surviving eclipse season and resurrecting 25-year-old software with Windows for Workgroups 3.11: One year with Mars Express
[2]AI clocks first-known 'binary sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system'. Another AI will be along shortly to tell us how to pronounce that properly
[3]Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses
Science teachers up and down the nation were this week keen to tell to excitable stargazers young and old alike not to look directly at the Sun. Nor was this an excuse to skip school or work and hang around outside all morning waiting for something to happen.
Boffins at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich were more interested in the "science" behind the "annular eclipse", during which the outer ring of the sun should still be visible.
"This is sometimes known as a 'ring of fire'."
[4]
Readers in parts of Russia, Greenland, and northern Canada should be able to see the full annular solar eclipse – weather permitting.
[5]
A partial eclipse will be visible in the UK, Northern Asia, Europe, and the US.
Alternatively, you can [6]livestream the whole show via the Royal Observatory's latest Annie Maunder Astrographic Telescope. ®
Get our [7]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/02/mars_express/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/sextuple_star_system/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/05/insight_mars_eclipse/
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[6] https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/solar-eclipse-2021-uk-live-stream
[7] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: blurry shadow
Steve K
..and the South East of England today too!!
We're in this together.
Re: blurry shadow
Tom 7
With the sun and the moon in the same place in the sky the combined gravitational pull sucks water out of the earth into the sky where it invariably turns into cloud.
Every sodding time.
blurry shadow
Yes. And for those of you that live in the North of England, there'll no doubt be the customary layer of low-lying cloud at that time, Every. Single. Time.