Solar eclips today:: Bilal Habib, Sachnews Jammu Kashmir Todays solar eclipse will be what scientists call an annular solar eclipse. The event, also known as a ring of fire solar eclipse, occurs when the sun is too far from Earth to completely obscure the suns disk. The result is a bright ring of sunlight around the moons silhouette, as viewed from the Earths surface. But on Tuesday, the potentially dazzling ring of fire eclipse will only be visible from one uninhabited spot in Antarctica, where the only audience may be penguins on the frigid landscape. This is a thoroughly bizarre eclipse, Slooh astronomer Bob Berman said in a statement. When Slooh brings its live feeds from Australia, and we watch in real time as the inky black hemisphere of the moon partially obscures the sun, the greatest thrill might be an awareness of whats occurring — unseen by any human — in a tiny region of Antarctica. The April 29 solar eclipse will begin at 1:15 p.m. local time in Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and end at 3:59 p.m. local time. The time of greatest eclipse occurs at 2:41 p.m., when the moon will obscure about 65 percent of the solar disk. The event will begin later in the day for observers in Melbourne (3:58 p.m. local time) and Sydney (4:13 p.m.), with the sun setting before the eclipse ends. French amateur astronomer Xavier Jubier created an interactive Google map of how the solar eclipse will look from different parts of Australia, a tool that may be helpful for some Australian eclipse chasers. Sloohs webcast will be led by host Geoff Fox and Observatory Director Paul Cox, and feature guest expert Dr. Lucie Green, a BBC contributor and solar researcher at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCLs Department of Space and Climate Physics. You can watch it live on Slooh or by downloading the Slooh iPad app. Viewers can ask questions during the show by using hashtag # Slooh . The Virtual Telescope Project webcast, led by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi in Ceccano, Italy, will provide views of Tuesdays solar eclipse with the help of a team of at least five astrophotograph ers located across Australia. Local Australians and photographers arent the only ones hoping for good weather and great solar eclipse views on Tuesday. Astronomer Jay Pasachoff of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. — a veteran 58 solar eclipses — will be observing the eclipse from Western Australia with colleague Robert Lucas. WARNING: Never look directly at the sun during an eclipse with a telescope or your unaided eye; severe eye damage can result. Scientists and amateur observers use special telescope filters or eclipse glasses to safely view the sun.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:57:01 +0000
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