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Fridays eclipse - top tips for viewing:

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this one was more for fun :)

i took em with my ipad :p but that was how much of it it was seen in slovenia, about 65% coverage.
 
Well, that was a bit of an anti-climax up here in cloudy Scotland.

We went out to our car park, dressed up and acting & looking like a couple of weirdos for this:

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It didn't even get (properly) dark, but I suppose in hindsight looking at the photos it got a bit duller for a few moments. We met one of our nice neighbours who was heading off for work or something, and the sight of us just confirmed her suspicion that we're a couple of oddballs. Thankfully she classes herself as a bit of a weirdo too, so it's all good. She hadn't even heard about the eclipse so the sight of us standing there over a wheeliebin with cameras and cups of coffee probably came as a bit of a surprise. Or maybe not. Hah.

Roll on the next one. :D
 
Well that was boring. It just looked cloudy, like it was going to rain sort of thing. I didn't know it was going to to be in the morning, told my little one to expect it to go night some time in the day for a few minutes lol.

Oh well...,

Ace pics, by the way....

Evey
 
My apologies to steewith2ees for making a 2nd thread :( Opps think I may have got a lil spangled and over excited, so hopefully no offence was taken.

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The Man had me outside in my jammies covered by my big ole furry coat, beret and ten 1,000 scarves watching clouds 8( I really couldn't get that excited but hey ho, I stood there looking skyward like a fool :D

Scottish clouds man...gotta love em'
 
Missed it here in shitty Ireland, i was up at the crack of dawn for it, as an amateur astronomer i am disgusted. XxxRachelxxx
 
Well, I've just joined an astronomy forum, so that makes me the resident expert astronomer on Bluelight. Any questions, just let me know and I'll get back to you in a couple of days. %)
 
steewith2ees said:
No need to apologise, we're not all amateur astronomers so the information in your op may be very welcome to some

Stee x
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I speak for the forum, im actually really into astronomy, cosmology and theorectical physics so im looking foward to some good threads felix

As much as Ilove it im no expert - i cant fully comprehend either quantum theory or general relativity (im crap at maths and tensor analysis is just way beyond my level of understanding - maybe Julie could help in these areas as resident wizard of digits)
 
@ Stee: Me too.. My preferred reading material these days (apart from Razzle ;) ) is astronomy/physics textbooks. One good one I can wholeheatedly recommend is 'Coming of age in the Milky Way' by Timothy Ferris. Its a little out of date now having been published in 1988, but it details the whole history of astronomy and physics from ancient times to the 80s and provides possibly the most concise explanation of quantum theory I've yet come across, with no tricky maths (which is where i fall down having only got an O level in the subject).
 
it was brilliant! I stared at it and I can still see. Made some pin hole cameras . Not a cloud in sight! Felt like I was wearing sunglasses and the temperature drop was very noticeable. I felt very emotional. The sun is very powerful alright. Does anyone else think that light creates the matter (hydrogen) in stars? energy does equal mass multiplied by the speed of light squared.
 
Other way round actually, its the fusion of hydrogen into heavier elements which creates the electromagnetic radiation we know as light and heat.

e=mc^2 just shows that energy and mass are one and the same. Mass is basically energy contained in the nuclear forces which bind atoms together. This is why nuclear weapons are so powerful. When you consider how large a number the speed of light squared actually is, then multiply that by a given mass, the amount of energy contained is enormous.
 
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^ so we have been led to believe! I do have a degree in physics, even if it is a third. Without light there is no matter. Was the universe just pure light and then the matter came? my maths is shit though. conservation of energy, all the forms of energy are interchangeable so if matter can create light then light can create matter...but then there is also conservation of mass, which of course goes out of the window with the nuclear stuff.
 
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