Total Eclipse

mayzee · Post by **mayzee** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:02 pm

Eclipse covering parts of europe today in case anyone doesn't know...

Marcus Stork · Post by **Marcus Stork** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:13 pm

Its cloudy and i cant se a sh!t of that eclipse!

mayzee · Post by **mayzee** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:17 pm

neither can I...

.kavo. · Post by **.kavo.** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:07 pm

what a pity. rainy here in Slovakia

nowayback · Post by **nowayback** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:17 pm

yeah i saw it

where i live, we could see no more than 80% of the eclipse at its
peak time (around 2pm).
we have a sunny day here today, and the sky colours, as well as the
reflections on the ground looked a bit awkward. as if someone was
...photoshoping with global saturation & contrasts.

but in the island of Kastellorizo (in the far south-east corner of Greece)
the total eclipse was fully visible for 4 minutes... saw it in the news and
it was absolutely extraordinary. Complete night scenery.

well, the next total one visible from over here will be in ...2088!

nowayback · Post by **nowayback** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:24 pm

ah yes... and something really weird we observed here at the office while
trying to watch the phenomenon out in the yard...

around 7-8 bees and flies were crawling, like half-dead, on the ground,
during the eclipse peak.

just googled it and read that insects are indeed heavily affected.
strange, innit!

mayzee · Post by **mayzee** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:25 pm

nice

i saw the one that went across south of teh UK a few years ago..

very strange when the sun covers up, all the animals go quiet... apparently some farmers had their cows at teh gate cos the cows thought it had been night and that it was time to be milked..

entropy · Post by **entropy** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:41 am

nowayback wrote:ah yes... and something really weird we observed here at the office while
trying to watch the phenomenon out in the yard...

around 7-8 bees and flies were crawling, like half-dead, on the ground,
during the eclipse peak.

just googled it and read that insects are indeed heavily affected.
strange, innit!

nature can be indeed funny, how small things affect animals (insects in this case)

Here in croatia it was like 50%, and it was sunny all day, no clouds, but i didn't see it anyway, was on college