Partial solar eclipse july 1, 2011

REMOTE SOLAR ECLIPSE: If the Moon covers the sun and no one is around to see it, did the eclipse actually happen? Philosophical riddles may be all we get on July 1st (0840 UT) when the Moon covers 9.7% of the solar disk. Receiving an actual picture of the partial eclipse is unlikely because of its very remote location:

"This Southern Hemisphere event is visible from a D-shaped region in the Antarctic Ocean south of Africa," says eclipse expert Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Such a remote and isolated path means that it may very well turn out to be the solar eclipse that nobody sees."

The eclipse is visible from the region covering Southern Ocean between Antarctica and southern Africa.

courtesy - www.spaceweather.com & www.packolkata.org

Partial Solar eclipse June 1-2, 2011

The Month of june has two eclipses lined up for earth, one partial solar and total lunar eclipse. Partial solar eclipse will not be visible from india as it is happening during early hours of 2nd june for us in india.

The eclipse will not be visible in INDIA

Area of visibility: The eclipse is visible from the region covering eastern Asia except southern Japan, northern Alaska, northern Canada, the northern tip of Scandinavia, Greenland and Iceland.

CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE ECLIPSE

	Universal Time	Indian Standard Time
Eclipse begins Greatest Eclipse * Eclipse ends	1d 19h 25.3m 1d 21h 16.2m 1d 23h 06.9m	2d 00h 55.3m 2d 02h 46.2m 2d 04h 36.9m

* Magnitude of the eclipse = 0.6014

Images from SPACE of the eclipse

Check live webcasts of the Partial solar eclipse

Live webcast from Delhi by SPACE - CLICK HERE

Astronomy Live - CLICK HERE

Astronomers without borders CLICK HERE TO SEE THE WEBCAST 

Another Link from SPAIN  - CLICK HERE

Yet another Link - CLICK HERE

How to View a Solar Eclipse

Viewing the Sun during partial and annular eclipses (and during total eclipses outside the brief period of totality) requires special eye protection, or indirect viewing methods. The Sun's disk can be viewed using appropriate filtration to block the harmful part of the Sun's radiation. Sunglasses are not safe, since they do not block the harmful and invisible infrared radiation which causes retinal damage. Only properly designed and certified solar filters should ever be used for direct viewing of the Sun's disk. Especially, self-made filters using common objects like a floppy disk removed from its case, a Compact Disc, a black colour slide film, etc. must be avoided.

Projection Method of Viewing

The safest way to view the Sun's disk is by indirect projection. This can be done by projecting an image of the disk onto a white piece of paper or card using a pair of binoculars (with one of the lenses covered), a telescope, or another piece of cardboard with a small hole in it (about 1 mm diameter), often called a pinhole camera. The projected image of the Sun can then be safely viewed; this technique can be used to observe sunspots, as well as eclipses. However, care must be taken to ensure that no one looks through the projector (telescope, pinhole, etc.) directly. Viewing the Sun's disk on a video display screen (provided by a video camera or digital camera) is safe, although the camera itself may be damaged by direct exposure to the Sun. The optical viewfinders provided with some video and digital cameras are not safe.

Pinhole Method of Viewing

 

Partial solar eclipse on 4th January 2011

PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN ON JANUARY 4, 2011

 LOCAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PARTIAL PHASE IN INDIA

Place	Eclipse Begins (I.S.T.)	Greatest Phase (I.S.T.)	Magnitude	Eclipse Ends (I.S.T.)
Ajmer	15h 13.0m	15h 28.1m	0.014	15h 43.2m
Amritswar	14h 45.3m	15h 29.6m	0.128	16h 11.1m
Chandigarh	14h 57.4m	15h 32.0m	0.080	16h 05.0m
Dehradun	15h 05.2m	15h 33.4m	0.054	16h 00.5m
Delhi	15h 11.9m	15h 32.1m	0.027	15h 52.0m
Dwarka	15h 07.1m	15h 17.6m	0.006	15h 28.2m
Haridwar	15h 08.0m	15h 33.4m	0.044	15h 58.1m
Jaipur	15h 19.2m	15h 29.9m	0.007	15h 40.7m
Jalandhar	14h 48.1m	15h 30.1m	0.115	16h 09.5m
Nainital	15h 22.3m	15h 34.7m	0.011	15h 47.1m
Simla	14h 57.0m	15h 32.4m	0.084	16h 06.1m
Srinagar	14h 37.6m	15h  29.6m	0.183	16h 17.8m

Magnitude means it is the fraction of the diameter of the eclipsed body.

More information on Circumstances from different cities (courtesy eclipse.org.uk)
Amritsar,  Bikaner,  Chandigarh,  Delhi,  Jaipur,  Jammu,  Ludhiana,  Meerut,  Srinagar

Links to animation of the eclipse at various locations in India. Click on the cities below to get the animation (courtesy eclipse.org.uk)
Amritsar,  Bikaner,  Chandigarh,  Delhi,  Jaipur,  Jammu,  Ludhiana,  Meerut,  Srinagar

Message from Professor Jay Pasachoff in Chile for the Eclipse

I am in Chile and will observe from Easter Island.
Here's our press release:
Solar Eclipse to Sweep Across the Pacific

Professor Jay Pasachoff of Williams College's astronomy department is on Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean preparing to observe the July 11 total solar eclipse.  The eclipse will be one of the least observed ever, since so much of the path is over ocean.  Easter Island, 2500 miles west of the Chilean South American mainland, is the only substantial land in the path, until the extreme end of the eclipse at sunset reaches Patagonia.  Some eclipse scientists and ecotourists will observe totality from atolls in French Polynesia or the Cook Islands.

Prof. Pasachoff will travel to Easter Island with students Muzhou Lu, Williams College '12, and Craig Malamut, a Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium Summer Fellow and Wesleyan '11.  They will be joined on site by Prof. Marek Demianski.  They will be carrying out high-resolution imaging to look for motions in the corona and to continue following the varying magnetic-field configuration in the solar-corona as a function of the solar-activity cycle.  Though the sunspot cycle remains in an extreme low, some other indications of solar activity have been increasing and we are eager to see the condition of the low and middle corona.

Further, Pasachoff is coauthor of papers with Miloslav Druckmüller of the Czech Republic and Vojtech Rusin of Slovakia on the former's extensive image processing to bring out fine details and high contrast in the corona at the eclipses of 2005, 2006, and 2008, and they plan to use this year's images to compare with similar images planned for Polynesia and the Cook Islands as well as images taken with one of our Nikon telephoto lenses from an airplane that will take off from Tahiti.  The airplane observations are in collaboration with Glen Schneider of the University of Arizona.  They expect to see motions at least in polar plumes.

Also, they will be using the images to fill in gaps between the observations of the corona on the solar disk taken with NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory and the observations of the outer corona taken with the Naval Research Laboratory's coronagraph on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory; they have contributed to similar images for the past several eclipses but now will have the improved SDO images as part of our montage.  Several of the cameras will be computer controlled using software called Solar Eclipse Maestro written by Xavier Jubier of France.

The event will be Pasachoff's 51st solar eclipse.  He is Chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses.

The Williams College team is accompanied by a documentary crew filming for National Geographic Channel, and their activities will be covered in a special program entitled Easter Island Eclipse partly pre-recorded and partly expected to have new eclipse footage that will air on the National Geographic Channel on the evening of July 11th, at 11 pm.  In Williamstown, the National Geographic Channel is on cable channel 201.