SUN to GO OUT COMPLETELY: Here's how to watch online At around 19:45 GMT on November 13th, the northern Australian city of Cairns will begin to experience a total solar eclipse, and we here at the Register's Australian bureau have chosen a couple of methods whereby our round-the-globe-round-the-clock readership can join in the excitement and watch the sun go out online. Complete …
The full, total, absolute, TOTAL ECLIPSE - a once in a billion year event, aligned perfectly to the millimeter, over the exact center of our house, in Melbourne Australia - about 35 years ago....
Of course, rather than get all excited and get the gear and go stand in the middle of the park, with a welding mask on and or a pin hole camera etc., rampant dumb fuck arsehole father, decided that going to visit his idiot inlaws that day, half way across the state.... was a much better idea.
Just to think that was only 300K away from the total eclipse - and it just ruined everything.
35 years later, he is still an arsehole.
I was visiting my brother in Augsburg for the 1999 one; a cloudy day, but the sky cleared up just before the thing started to get going. We had a brilliant garden party, and somehow the Door's "The End" came on the stereo just as totality was happening.
Incredible day. The memory still makes me smile.
Enjoy, Southrons!
How come Cairns was chosen to host the eclipse?
I'll bet their poxy video stream won't be as professional as the 1972 Audio Recording from Lord's Cricket ground.
A pity about the rain though.
I went across to Romania for the 1999 one to get that precious extra minute or so of totality and was rewarded with clear skies.
But the part that I found was most fascinating occurred *before* totality as the sun was gradually reduced to a crescent.
We were watching on the edge of a forest with dappled sunlight under the canopy of leaves. As we watched each dapple changed shape into a perfect crescent.
I had always assumed that the shapes in dappled sunlight were due to ... you know... the shapes left by the gaps in the leaves. But apparently the leaves form myriad pinhole cameras projecting the shape of the sun. Quite quite magical, I have some photos somewhere.
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