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woodnymphmember
313 posts
Location: london,uk


Posted:
i just thought i'd bring this occasion to your attention,it only happens once every 100 years or so......we should be able to see it in uk,and most of europe too.....any ideas for safe viewing of eclipses? sunny heart

DFZBRONZE Member
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313 posts
Location: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia


Posted:
I don't think there is really any way safe way to view an eclipse. I think i also heard that this eclipse is more likely to make you go blind than a normal eclipse, but i am not 100% sure.

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woodnymphmember
313 posts
Location: london,uk


Posted:
it could well be true cos venus is only gonna be a tini black blob travelling across the sun,leaving a large part of the sun exposed,unlike lunar eclipses.

Bender_the_OffenderGOLD Member
still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia


Posted:
if you create a pinhole in your camera, then view a webcast, you will witness the transit

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psycho44BRONZE Member
member
56 posts
Location: USA


Posted:
Use a welding hood with a shade 11 or a shade 12 . You can look directly at the sun and stare at it all day long with no ill effects other than a neck cramp.

MeleSILVER Member
A perth girl gone walkabout...
396 posts
Location: Back home in Perth WA, Australia


Posted:

I know you can get special glasses - At the Outback eclipse festival they had in South Australia a few years ago now, they made up special disposable glasses to watch the eclipse with... not sure what the material they had in the glasses was tho? If you could find out, you could make your own glasses, or just hold up a sheet of it. Hmmmm... i'll see if i can find out for you smile

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DomBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,009 posts
Location: Bristol, UK


Posted:
Do not use 'special' glasses to look at the sun!
For eclipses people do sell very dense filters, but the advice is still to only look briefly and just before the eclipse when most of the sun is covered.

To view it read this

mechBRONZE Member
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6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom


Posted:
if you wnat to catch it on a camera, use an slr with a telephoto lens, line i up and expose for about 100th of a sec and you should get quiet a nice shot!

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GottaLoveItSponge
883 posts
Location: Stevenage


Posted:
When's it happening?

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DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
It's just finished - I was a bit dissapointed, it really was a little speck on the sun - using pin-hole projectionc, or reverse binoculars made the sun about 1-2cm, so Venus was about the size of a .

Some nice webcasts though smile

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DuncGOLD Member
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom


Posted:
it looked lovely on the tv this morning

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Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...


Posted:
My eyes heart from looking at that, *rubs them*....

Is it normal to have black dots in the centre of your vision? wink ubbrollsmile

This link is good to see it if u missed it. https://home.freeuk.net/dgstrange/transit.venus.2004/

and
https://www.vt-2004.org/central/

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mo-sephenthusiast
523 posts
Location: Edinburgh, UK


Posted:
Just for fun, here's some photos my dad took with a novelty telescope (it's the blue thing that looks a bit like a penguin in the first photo wink )

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Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
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Posted:
Damn, That penguin rocks.... where can I get one?

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woodnymphmember
313 posts
Location: london,uk


Posted:
Thanks for all the feedback!As it was,i didn't actually see it till i followed all the cool links here! thankx

stripesSILVER Member
stranger
41 posts
Location: england


Posted:
were you there? at the eclipse in south australia? I was in ceduna at the time (which was supposed to be the best place to see it, and probably would have been if it hadn't been for the (rude word) cloud that got in the way)

was still an amazing atmosphere though, i think i met more people in that one night than in the rest of my gap year (but then i was exceptionally pissed and don't reammy remember any of them).

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Bender_the_OffenderGOLD Member
still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia


Posted:
I can personally vouch that the eclipse glasses didn't work. Why? cus when you have an astronomical viewing in a psytrance festival, everything under the sky is....distracting.
but for $15AU, did i expect platinum rimmed telescope niceness smile

https://www.barrelfullofmonkeys.org/eclipse.html
(the third gallery is from a guy called bender)

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mo-sephenthusiast
523 posts
Location: Edinburgh, UK


Posted:
Written by: Fine_Rabid_Dog


Damn, That penguin rocks.... where can I get one?




here!

And they're great fun...

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