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Solar Eclipse 2015, Reykjavik via /r/spaceporn http://bit.ly/2wV33jR

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Solar Eclipse 2015, Reykjavik via /r/space http://bit.ly/2Rk6mKN

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László | Széchenyi István square

„This one is a partial solar eclipse, and the Moon is covering roughly 60% of the Sun now. This phenomenon could come to existence, which is a great luck, because the Sun is approximately 400 times further than the Moon; and approximately 400 times larger, too, so at a total solar eclipse it could happen that only the crown of the Sun is visible. In such case, the zone where it can be seen is only a few hundred kilometres wide here on Earth.” “Where were you in 1999 when there was a total solar eclipse in Hungary?” “I was much younger then, we were somewhere close to Győr, at the border of the line that I’ve just mentioned. I had built a huge camera obscure made of a cooling box, it had taken weeks. The house where we watched the eclipse from is next to route 86; and I remember that the minivans and cars stopped, people jumped out and everybody was staring at the sky.” “Why and how did you become an astronomer?” “It evolved from a childhood desire and passion, or stayed as it turned out that I have the affinity to Maths and Physics, too as it turned out in high-school.” “And what is your speciality field?” “I deal with pulsing, variable stars, which are not like the Sun with a constant light, but their brightness changes periodically; I mainly work with the data of the Kepler Space Telescope. It is good, because it is in space, the weather conditions do not disturb it, and we can work with long data lists and the data from constant observations.” /photo: Mátyás Szöllősi/

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Jack the Lab Rat

With Norwich covered in a blanket of low grey cloud, the much anticipated solar eclipse was a bit of a damp squib – more like God just dimmed the lights than a biblical black out. Hardly a spectacle to drive the ignorant to their knees. Still, I did sense a fleeting cold snap. Spooky.

I was up and out early for my appointment at the docs that morning. Following my arterial reborelast summer, the…

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