Solar Eclipse on Feb 7 in NZ !!

[canuck]

Hello, since Hayley will be touring NZ very soon I thought I would mention that on Feb 7 there will be an annular eclipse of the sun (a very rare and impressive celestial event simialr to a total eclipse) which will be visible from NZ, Australia and Antarctica. It will start at approx 3:30pm and last maybe 2 hours or so. Anyone in the area be sure to check it out, but if you miss it you can always head to China/Russia/Mongolia for the total eclipse on August. 1 Cheers, Wayne

[Dori]

Thanks for that Wayne, and welcome to the forum! I sure will be looking out for that in February!

Dori

[Richard]

Hello everybody!

What a pity the eclipse is just too late for Waitangi Day. This will be the first New Moon in Aquarius, so 7th February must be the Chinese New Year! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Richard

[Joe]

Who painted the sun black ..

The partial solar eclipse on February 7 will find the Moon, at a new Moon phase, passing partially between the Earth and the Sun—as seen in New Zealand and the southeastern parts of Australia. The Moon will hide a portion of the Sun—making it a “partial” eclipse.

Also, in this case, the solar eclipse is called an “annular” eclipse because when the Moon passes in front of the Sun it doesn’t completely hide it (its smaller in apparent size from the Sun).

The outer fringes (called the annulus) of the Sun will be seen surrounding the Moon in the middle of the eclipse. Unfortunately, this event will only appear in and around the unpopulated Antarctica and surrounding Southern Ocean areas at Earth’s southern polar region.

The annular phase runs from 03:19:43 to 04:30:55 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

People in New Zealand and Australia will not see this annular solar eclipse. However, they will see a partial solar eclipse. The partial eclipse will be visible over most of Antarctica, southeastern Australia, and New Zealand, generally, between 01:38:29 and 06:11:55 a.m. GMT.

For instance, in Auckland, New Zealand, the partial eclipse begins at about 4:48 p.m. (Pacific/Auckland) local time (3:48 a.m. GMT) and ends at about 6:51 p.m. (5:51 a.m. GMT), a little more than two hours later.

When the partial eclipse covers up the maximum amount of the Sun in Auckland, the Sun will be hidden by about 47%, which occurs at about 5:52 p.m. local time.

Remember to be safe while observing the eclipse. Do not look directly at the Sun with the naked eye, camera, binocular, or telescope.

A computer-generated image of the solar eclipse on February 7, 2008 is found at: www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0132008/. Local conditions can be called up for the event from this site.

Portions of this extracted from itWire.com...click HERE for entire article

[stevemacdonald]

As mentioned on another thread, look for the big Lunar Eclipse on Wednesday night/Thursday morning! See details here: Lunar Eclipse.

[Joe]

Hello Steve MacD,

Thanks for this info. about the upcoming lunar eclipse.

To avoid any duplication of threads on this event, this and the other posts from the 'What Are You Listening To' thread (also on the 'Off Topic' board) will be grouped together on its own thread.

Kindly let's continue the lunar eclipse discussion HERE.

Joe