Where will you be? Solar Eclipse, May 20th

[Royal]

An annular solar eclipse will take place on May 20, 2012 (May 21, 2012 for local time in Eastern Hemisphere), with a magnitude of 0.9439. It will be the first central eclipse of the 21st century in the continental USA, and also the first annular eclipse there since the solar eclipse of May 10, 1994 which was also the previous eclipse of this series Solar Saros 128.

An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.

The annular phase will be visible from the Chinese coast, the south of Japan, and the western part of the United States and Canada. Guangzhou, Tokyo and Albuquerque will be on the central path. Kanarraville, Utah will be a perfect place to view the annular phase.[citation needed] Its maximum will occur in the North Pacific, south of the Aleutian islands for 5 min and 46.3 s, and finish in the western United States.

It is a part of Saros cycle 128, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 16, 1417 through June 18, 1471 and hybrid eclipses from June 28, 1489 through July 31, 1543. Then it progresses into annular eclipses from August 11, 1561 through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 45 seconds on June 7, 1453.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_ecli ... y_20,_2012

[Pana]

Unseen in my part of the country.

[Pigeon]

Looks as though the center will pass a bit north of here. Looks like the gods will be scaring us on that day.

[Pana]

I was at an out door barbecue in the country surrounded by a group of people who couldn't care about the transit while I ignored all their banality and seared my eyeballs looking at the sun through my fingers.

Then I had to endure four hours of fucking fireworks from an idiot who brought a fucking pickup truck full. The best part of that was when backfired and set the hay bales on fire.


...and where were you lads?

[Royal]

After reading, you inspired me to check out the sunset.

As I was staring, I noticed a pretty big spot on the lower half. I went to check space weather and sure enough...

[Royal]

"REVISED FORECAST: The CME launched toward Earth by yesterday's X-flare is moving faster than originally thought. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have revised their forecast accordingly, advancing the cloud's expected arrival time to 09:17 UT (5:17 am EDT) on Saturday, July 14th. Weekend auroras are likely."

"X-FLARE! Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th. Because the sunspot is directly facing Earth, everything about the blast was geoeffective. For one thing, it hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward our planet. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will hit Earth on July 14th around 09:17 UT (+/- 7 hours) and could spark strong geomagnetic storms."


At least you see Auroras... right? I havn't seen one.

[Pana]

For you, Royal, from the province I live in: Manitoba.




When I first read about the solar flares in 2010, I was really curious to see what effect they would have on the electronic grids / global infrastructure but so far nothing. Perhaps the July 14th will prove to be the one.

(I hope the link works, I have chancy luck when it comes to youtube links.)

Nope, it didn't work.

[Royal]

close. Just everything before the "&" so just input "VYzKi5-J6P8"

I don't know if the 14th will be it. I enjoy the synchronicity of it all rather than the doom.

[Pana]

Doom is for the ones that don't like life.

You're finding the joy and fucking awe in the synchronicity.

You like Life.