Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017

malonmar (64)in #science • 7 years ago

On August 21 there will be a solar eclipse that will only be total in a band of the United States, in other parts of the world the eclipse will be partial and will not be visible from all the places.

Image Source: Bloomberg

A solar eclipse is the astronomical phenomena in which the moon partially or totally covers the sun and darkens the day in a momentary way, always seen from Earth. For those of you interested, it is much better to visit the Wikipedia page that explains correctly what an eclipse is and what types there are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse

To know if you see the eclipse from your city, even partially, you can visit the following page, where you will find a countdown and you can choose your country to see if you can see and at what local time this fabulous phenomenon will happen.

https://www.vercalendario.info/en/moon/united_kingdom-21-august-2017.html

As a mandatory recommendation, please do not look directly at the sun, sunglasses or any device or filter that is not recommended by a specialist. Mandatory to say you should not use binoculars, never do that. It is best to make a small hole in a sheet of paper and project the light through it in a cardboard, if it can be dark better.

Astronomy is a topic that fascinates me, I have a telescope and especially in summer, every time I can I escape to the mountains to observe the sky although if there is not a single cloud, sometimes from home we can observe the moon.