Annular Solar Eclipse this Jan. 15, 2010

[Divemaster]

For all those astronomy enthusiast out there, here's a link of the annular solar eclipse which will occur this 15th of January 2010.

Solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[rodsky]

It's not a spectacular event. It will be low in Cebu skies (over the mountains) at 5 pm.
So chances are, no one in Cebu City will even be aware that the sun's being partially covered by the moon. But since this news got posted here, the chances of this happening have decreased a little bit

The best conditions are the following:

a) You are facing west towards the sea (i.e. Balamban)

b) 5% or less cloud coverage

c) no hazy horizon

If these conditions are met, it will prove to be a nice spectacle. It will probably look like this at 4:55 PM:



This is the maximum coverage of the moon on the sun's disk. Gamay ra ang paak.

Thanks for the reminder, DM!

-RODION

[Divemaster]

you're welcome bai rodsky, hehehe! its been a while that i haven't gazed the sky at night

[rambutan]

mao ni ang agi sa eclipse unya! )

[ethzneuron]

oi.. karon man diay ni. samot ni kagamay chance ani ron kay dag-om..

[madrid]

d na gyud ni makita tungod sa uwan... how awful

[rodsky]

You can watch it as it happens in Sri Lanka here:

Annular Solar Eclipse 2010 | Live Webcast from Sri Lanka

This is how it will look like in India/Sri Lanka:



The sky will NOT turn black because this is an annular eclipse (the apparent diameter of the moon is smaller than the sun's, so more light from the sun means that the sky will not turn black as night). The only reason why the photo above has a black sky is because of the exposure settings set for that camera.

-RODION

[personalmgt]

^Is it just me, or the link says it's off air?

[rodsky]

^Is it just me, or the link says it's off air?

Of course it's off air, the eclipse wont start til around 3 pm our time.

-RODION