Question by IIIIIII: If a solar eclipse occurs while small kids are at school will the teachers bring them inside or let them see?
A solar eclipse occurred when I was 11 and all the kids were outside after lunch. Teachers passed around a few pairs of glasses through which to view the eclipse, but there weren't many pairs for all the kids.
I was too excited to wait and squinted one eye shut and looked directly at the eclipse with the other eye...the next day I was at the eye doctor with an ultraviolet laser burn in the ...cornea, I believe...in other words, a permanent blind spot, which I still have thirty years later.
But what about the younger kids, like 6 or 10 years old? Will teachers protect them? Kids can be extremely curious and excited about these things...I actually plan to keep my youngest son home inside in the event of a solar eclipse...and NOT let him be in school at that time.
People don't understand that the eclipse can seriously and permanently damage the eyes- and I only looked at it for about 7 seconds...while my eyeball was being painlessly burned away from the center outward and I hadn't a clue till it was too late.
MARK dosen't know how to read. Poor Mark.
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If a solar eclipse occurs while small kids are at school will the teachers bring them inside or let them see?
What are the farthest points north and south that total solar and lunar eclipses can occur?
Question by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com: What are the farthest points north and south that total solar and lunar eclipses can occur?
I was just reading about today's total solar eclipse, which was visible in Siberia, and I got to wondering, what are the farthest points north and south that total eclipses can occur? Can they occur at the poles?
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Answer by JeffSolar eclipses can theoretically happen anywhere on the earth where you can see the sun. Think about it this way, during any new moon, there is a point in space near the earth where the shadow of the moon falls. (the moon is always casting a shadow in space behind it) Sometimes we get lucky and that shadow lands on the earth and we call it an eclipse. But there is always a shadow, and as the moon orbits the earth and passes by the sun every month during the new moon, the shadow usually passes above or below the earth. Of course, it could happen to just graze the top or bottom of the earth and cause an eclipse at one of the poles. You don't hear of that happening very often because of random chance--the poles are a small target, just like New York city is a small target. How often does New York get a total solar eclipse? Not very often, but just as often as any other random spot on the earth.
An eclipse of the moon happens on the entire earth/sun facing side of the moon, so it is visible from any part of the earth that is facing the moon at the moment of the eclipse. In other words, during any lunar eclipse, about half of the earth (the half facing the moon) can see the lunar eclipse.
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Q&A: What time would I need to be up to see the lunar eclipse this December?
Question by : What time would I need to be up to see the lunar eclipse this December?
So I found out that on December 21 2010, there will be a visible lunar eclipse. I really wanna stay up and see it but I don't know what time the eclipse will be visible from where I live in Southern California. Does anyone know?
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Answer by Anne MarieHi Y!
The time you'll want to look for Monday night's eclipse is 10:33 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, the moment when the partial eclipse begins.
It takes just over an hour for the earth's shadow to completely engulf the moon, which means that totality arrives at 11:41 p.m. PST and then lasts for another hour and 12 minutes.
Why are others saying December 21st when in fact it's Monday night? The official way the dates of eclipses are reckoned follows Greenwich Mean Time, the time zone of England, and this eclipse indeed happens on Tuesday morning the 21st GMT, and indeed Tuesday evening in New Zealand. In North America, though, it's Monday night, although the eclipse will run past midnight over most of the continent.
You may see some writers giving earlier times for the official start of the eclipse. They're not wrong, technically, but these earlier times are not helpful, and you will not see any eclipse until 10:33 p.m. Pacific Time.
A penumbral eclipse starts at 9:28 p.m. Monday night. A penumbral eclipse means that an observer watching from the moon would see the beginning of a partial eclipse of the sun by the earth. During a partial eclipse of the sun, the amount of light reaching the moon is slightly reduced, much as happens here when we start a partial solar eclipse.
Watching from earth, though, you won't notice anything happening during the penumbral eclipse. If you went out looking at 9:28, you'd likely just grouse that you'd been given wrong information, and disappointedly go to bed. You'll see only a normal full moon if you were to go out looking before 10:33 p.m. PST.
(Actually, if you look carefully, you may be able to notice signs of the deepening penumbral phase in the last few minutes before the start of the partial eclipse at 10:33 p.m. PST. In those last few minutes, the lower left part of the moon is only receiving a fraction of its normal sunlight. It would look to you as though the left "cheek" of the man in the moon (facing from earth) were in need of a shave. It's nothing like the start of the partial eclipse, though.)
This eclipse is shallow, as total lunar eclipses go. That means that during totality, the moon will remain a coppery red. Some total eclipses are deeper, and the moon darkens to the point where you might not even notice it if you didn't know where to look. This eclipse is not one of these.
Total eclipses of the moon occur in runs, every six months or so, usually with three or four total
How often do Solar Eclipses happen in the Unites States?
Question by Chesney: How often do Solar Eclipses happen in the Unites States?
I dont mean all together, I mean actually in the united states around Michigan, Ohio, Indiana?
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