Orion Syndicate
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It is very likely that tomorrow morning will be cloudy and the eclipse will be difficult to see. I suppose I'll be the one laughing at my uncle now, not the other way around.
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I've never seen one. I got all pysched for one, but then needed emergency medical treatment when someone I knew died of meningitis (Okay, so I can't spell it). They thought I might have had it, too. Well, obviously, I didn't.
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Orion Syndicate
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Member # 25
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Jaresh, you spelled it properly.
I just saw a partial eclipse about an hour ago from outside my home and although there was still a lot of light, it had gotten noticably darker. I saw the total eclipse on TV and it made me wish that I was in Cornwall despite the clouds and rain.
My mom told me today that she'd seen an eclipse when she was growing up in Pakistan. She didn't know what was going on then because being from a poor agricultural family, they didn't get much information, except to not look up at it. I'm so jealous.
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Well, Stockholm got a 60% eclipse. I was the only one in my office with a certified pair of glasses I got from some science magazine, so I didn't get to look much myself. But what I did see...Golly!
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Orion Syndicate
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Member # 25
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Where I was, we got a 90% eclipse but as I said above, there was still plenty of light although I did see the sun get blocked by the moon and the clouds combined.
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Bernd: I'm sorry for you. Stuttgart was a bad choice. The Austrians had more luck. We had a clear sky here in Switzerland, but the eclipse was only aprox. 97 percent, so it got a little bit darker, but it was quite unspectacular.
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Bad luck. We were about 30km north of Stuttgart, and it was cloudy all the time. Fortunately there were at least some gaps that let us look at the partial eclise. This was already worth the trip, I think. Then, about 15 minutes before the total eclipse the clouds totally covered the sun, and except for a brief moment at about 90% we couldn't see anything. No corona, no stars. The darkness was fascinating, though. Not quite as dark as I had imagined, but an illumination level in between sunset and moon light. The most impressive thing was how fast it got dark and then bright again.
The worst idea, however, was going to Stuttgart after the eclipse. It took us twenty minutes to get there, but three and a half hours to get the few kilometers out of the city again, caught in the country's longest traffic jam ever.
The First One
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Member # 35
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Partial eclipse, shmartial eclipse. Believe me, if it's not totality you might as well watch it on TV. Mozambique ot Madagascar (whichever it was), 2000 or 2001 (likewise), I'm THERE.
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