4th January 2011 - Solar eclipse

[george7378]

While Europe misses the Lunar eclipse of the 26th June, we will get a partial solar eclipse on the 4th January 2011 - the UK will see the Sun around 75% covered from sunrise to a fourth contact around 1hr 40mins afterwards. I know it is a while yet, but it is something to look forward to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_4,_2011

 

[Mojave]

All right. I know what I'm doin next January.

 

[IronRain]

Are you in Europe at that time then?

 

[RisingFury]

Since the eclipse will happen in the morning, that's gonna be an extended night. I just hope the weather is nice so I can watch this on my way to school...

 

[Notebook]

Seems a good time to bring this back.

Nothing in Northumberland UK yet. Not likely to either, low cloud and more forecast.

N.

 

[Cizurator]

Here in Czech Republic, the sun is 80% covered.... unfurtunately it's cloudy here, no visual contact.:suicide:

 

[Rtyh-12]

Here we've got a horrible weather, for watching the sky at least...it's not raining or anything, but there are a looooot of clouds. Fortunately, I couldn't watch it either because I have no special glasses, and I think these are unsafe too. Anyway, it was a little darker some hour ago.

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Here we've got a horrible weather, for watching the sky at least...it's not raining or anything, but there are a looooot of clouds. Fortunately, I couldn't watch it either because I have no special glasses, and I think these are unsafe too. Anyway, it was a little darker some hour ago.

The glasses you're supposed to wear if you look at an eclipse aren't unsafe, quite the opposite...

 

[Urwumpe]

Complete overcast with snowfall ... completely the worst weather for this.

 

[Rtyh-12]

The glasses you're supposed to wear if you look at an eclipse aren't unsafe, quite the opposite...

I mean the glasses which you can buy at street corners. I think that here they only sell proper glasses at the biggest solar observatories...

 

[SiberianTiger]

We've got lucky here in Moscow. Although, for me there were some tree branches in between me and the Sun:

After applying a makeshift filter:

Surroundings in the shadowed light:

It's nothing compared to the full eclipse of 2008, though!

 

[Nazban]

i got a nice one in Dubai(for the partial solar eclipse we had), and used my telescope as a projector

 

[astrosammy]

It looks like it was cloudy here, I slept until now so I can't know.

The strange thing is that I never noticed that it got darker. Not in the nearly total eclipse of 1999 and not in the partial eclipse of 2008.

 

[orb]

A few nice shots here -

BBC News: Early partial solar eclipse for 2011.​

 

[McWgogs]

Here's a movie with the photos and videos I've made today

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Check it out - an ISS solar transit during the eclipse! :speakcool:

© Thierry Legault 2010.

Source.

 

[Notebook]

ESA got a look too:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMEAL0SDIG_index_0.html

N.

 

[RisingFury]

Damn weather

 

[tblaxland]

One of the best pictures of the eclipse that I have seen, from Stockholm:
http://lpod.wikispaces.com/January+6,+2011