Re: Annular Eclipse - October 2005

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:43:21 GMT, pausch@xxxxxxx (Paul Schlyter)
wrote:

>I'm a bit perplexed by your post: what you say here is that you would not
>travel a long distance to see an event you consider fantastic. How come?
>
>Or did you perhaps exaggreate a bit when you said you found the event
>"fantastic" ?

Yeah, perhaps I exaggerated a bit with "fantastic". It was certainly
a unique event to witness, but I knew what to expect in advance and
came prepared with filters and eyepiece projection screen and didn't
expect to see a naked-eye spectacular.

Some of the public viewing the eclipse were disappointed, because they
assumed you'd be able to see the ring at the moment of annularity.
You couldn't really do that with the unaided eye. The small amount of
sun exposed was glaringly bright. You could perhaps get a quick
momentary glance, but you really needed a filter to view it properly.

This eclipse was viewed around mid-day with the sun over 70 degrees in
elevation. I would think an annular eclipse near sunrise or sunset
would be more dramatic (like the ones viewed in San Diego and
Australia).

.

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