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Total Eclipse of the Sun - Where Can I Watch the Next Solar Eclipse?

Wed, 26 Jun 2008 12:13:06 GMT

posted by edagan

This article covers the next total eclipse of the Sun and the dates for those to come until 2010. The next total eclipse of the Sun is predicted for 1 August 2008, and to view it you’ll have to travel to northern Canada, Russia or, for best viewing chances, to northwest China (details below).

A total eclipse of the sun is one of those events that you are meant to see at least once in your lifetime. When a total eclipse hit mainland Britain in 1927, special trains were scheduled and thousands lined the eclipse path, peering through stubborn cloud cover to get a view of the totality.

The day before the 1927 eclipse (28 June), The Manchester Guardian wrote in its leader: “We may confidently assume that this will be the first total eclipse in England which has not struck terror into quite a number of people. Although the Chaldeans had established by the eighth century B.C. a considerable and accurate astronomical science by which some correct calculations of eclipses appear to have been made, there has never been until quite recent times a widespread popular understanding of what was happening when the darkness came.” After watching the 1927 eclipse, Virginia Woolf famously commented: ”I had very strongly the feeling as the light went out of some vast obeisance; something kneeling down and suddenly raised up when the colours came… [then when the sun came out again she wrote -TD] It was like recovery… We had seen the world dead.”

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN 1 AUGUST 2008
Where can I watch it?
The eclipse path starts in Northern Canada, in the territory of Nunavut, and then travels north east along icy territories to Greenland. The instant of greatest eclipse when totality reaches its maximum duration...

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Mon, 15 Jul 2008 18:32:49 GMT

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Total Eclipse in Redding....

Tue, 9 Apr 2008 15:06:00 GMT

posted by LargeMarge
According to Planet Redding, there's going to be a total eclipse in Redding this Friday and Saturday night at the Schreder Planetarium. Check it out and head to Shasta County Department of Education to snag your tickets. Photo courtesy of SpaceWeather.com: "Earth is inside a solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole. Credit: SOHO Extreme UV Telescope."

Solar Eclipse

Mon, 3 Jun 2008 07:10:09 GMT

posted by steve866
This article will keep you informed about all upcoming total solar eclipses worldwide; so that you may get a chance to see one LIVE!

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Fri, 1 Jul 2006 00:22:55 GMT

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