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Partial Solar Eclipse
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Baz1978
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Partial Solar Eclipse
At about 9:30 on Friday there will be a 90% solar eclipse at my office. I'm predicting it's going to be pretty dark just as we go out on delivery. Has RM any plans on us going out late this date?
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aiden01
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
wear your hi,vizBaz1978 wrote:At about 9:30 on Friday there will be a 90% solar eclipse at my office. I'm predicting it's going to be pretty dark just as we go out on delivery. Has RM any plans on us going out late this date?
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ewancurze
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
You will hardly notice any reduction in light levels even with 90% of sun obscured,light levels only drop noticeably just before totality.
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halfull
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
glad you get out that early!!
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GT85
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
No problem at my office, we are always kept in the dark 
We're all here because we're not all there
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bustedflush
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
Not just at 'your' office! (unless your DIM has supernatural powers.)Baz1978 wrote:At about 9:30 on Friday there will be a 90% solar eclipse at my office. I'm predicting it's going to be pretty dark just as we go out on delivery. Has RM any plans on us going out late this date?
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fishtank
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bustedflush
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
It won't affect Scotland and the north anyway, as the sun is usually only visible there between midday and 14:00 on 1st. August each year.bustedflush wrote:Not just at 'your' office! (unless your DIM has supernatural powers.)Baz1978 wrote:At about 9:30 on Friday there will be a 90% solar eclipse at my office. I'm predicting it's going to be pretty dark just as we go out on delivery. Has RM any plans on us going out late this date?
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BillS
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
Oh to go back to the days when we went out in the dark every single day during the winter months.
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Shaders
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
I remeber the days of holding a torch at the start of you duty trying to read the address,
more chance of needing one at the end of your duty now
more chance of needing one at the end of your duty now
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arnold cheshire
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
it will be only like a black cloudy day nothing to worry about 
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TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
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The most spectacular eclipse of the Sun for 15 years will plunge Britain into twilight for two hours this month.
In a rare astronomical alignment the Moon will pass directly between the Sun and the Earth, blocking out most of the light from around 8.40am on March 20.
Northern Scotland will have the best view of the partial eclipse, where more than 98 per cent of the Sun will be covered. For London and the South East it will be around 85 per cent.

The most spectacular eclipse of the Sun for 15 years will plunge Britain into twilight for two hours this month.
In a rare astronomical alignment the Moon will pass directly between the Sun and the Earth, blocking out most of the light from around 8.40am on March 20.
Northern Scotland will have the best view of the partial eclipse, where more than 98 per cent of the Sun will be covered. For London and the South East it will be around 85 per cent.
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Jpro747
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
Got my eclipse glasses ready, just hope its clear sky. The 1999 eclipse was abysmal thanks to the weather
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
Not at all abysmal in Devon.Jpro747 wrote:Got my eclipse glasses ready, just hope its clear sky. The 1999 eclipse was abysmal thanks to the weather
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villan
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Re: Partial Solar Eclipse
At our office the DOM says that during the eclipse the first one to prove Einstein's general theory of relativity gets to skip absorption.