Solar Eclipse on Friday 20th

[mellors]

There will be a solar eclipse on Friday 20th. (Assuming we have the weather, and the sky is not obscured)
The maximum Eclipse will be at 09:45

Given good conditions, what the eclipse will look like from Ireland.



Totality can only be seen on two landmasses, the Faroe Islands midway between Scotland and Iceland, and the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Observers in those locations will see between two and two-and-a-half minutes of totality.
Away from the path of the total eclipse the Sun is only partly obscured by the Moon. This time the partial eclipse is visible across a large part of the northern hemisphere, including the whole of Europe, Greenland, Newfoundland, northern Africa and western Asia.

The eclipse will be closer to total the further north you are in Ireland.

Looks like its going to be overcast on Friday morning

[SteveB]

Looks like its going to be overcast on Friday morning

Yep.
Not looking like it is going to be good viewing weather.

[nonpareil]

Fantastic sight....remember that Cult who believed they would be 'beamed up' into the tail of the comet....wonder how they are getting on !

If memory serves rightly they had a mass suicide event in both Switzerland and California , I think, in the expectation of being taken somewhere due to the comet's arrival.

[nonpareil]

Yep.
Not looking like it is going to be good viewing weather.

We'll live in hope.

Sky is clear at the moment.

[funlover12]

hey look at it this way, if its really overcast and you cant see the sun you will still sense the presence of the eclipse, it will get much colder and darker suddenly and because of the very overcast sky and early morning time like dawn again

[SteveB]

A lot of cloud about, but can see the sun at the moment.
If it could just stay like this for about three hours.

[meath chap]

Cloudy here at the minute

[FCOS]

Super cloudy in Dublin, looks like the sun will be a no show.

[SteveB]

Clouded over here now too.
Forecast is not good with heavy cloud.
I can see heavy cloud moving in where I am .
I think the best hope is that there is a break in the cloud at the right time, and the right area in the sky.

The peak of the eclipse will be visible [weather permitting] about 09:28, depending on you are watching from.
The exact timing of the eclipse will vary slightly depending on where you are watching it from. In Dublin it starts at 8:24am, and runs until 10:36am.
The peak of the eclipse will be reached at 9:28am (9:22am in southwest Kerry or 9:31am in the northeast).

[emilyuk]

Its really cloudy here in Belfast too