Europe, northwest Africa, Asia and the Middle East received the spring of 2015 with a solar eclipse, that despite the overcast dates, it was a sight in the Arctic.
The Moon “ate” the sun on Friday during the solar eclipse, tarnished in many parts of the northern hemisphere for cloudy weather, so only a privileged few could admire the spectacle from a remote Arctic archipelago or board a plane.
The populations of Europe, northwest Africa and Asia and the Middle East expected pleasure to contemplate the phenomenon, but most cases were no clouds and the moon that have hidden the sun king.
The social networks were launched to comment on this astral appointment, largely damaged part, and in them the photos or less shared space with jokes masterful observer disappointed.
“Ok, it’s over. Fortunately, the next time there’s an eclipse in Britain will all be dead,” quipped a British tuitero, Mark Wallace.
So many people resident in the United Kingdom, Spain and France was splattered their party, and only a privileged few have weathered the clouds and watch from a plane’s “black sun”.
Upon payment of several hundred euros per head, 50 Danes were mounted aboard a Boeing 737 chartered for the occasion
Though even there they faced some drawbacks. “From the soil, you can hear the birds behave differently and feel the temperature drops, “explained to AFP one of the passengers, Valentin Mikkelsen, before boarding the device.
” And I could not see everything, so small that they are the windows, “noted the professor of 63 years.
For the tenth time since the beginning of the century, was total solar eclipse, but only the entire phenomenon could be seen from territories remote planet.
Meanwhile, national authorities multiplied warnings, as usual, urging wear glasses special protection to prevent eye damage.
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Thousands of eclipse chasers, sometimes arrived from the antipodes, traveled to the Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory north of the UK, and Svalbard (Norway), 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, in through the Arctic to witness the spectacle.
In Svalbard, just released four months of polar night, an attack on a Czech tourist on Thursday did not deter the curious. Locals and visitors could see the night in broad daylight for about two and a half minutes
A total solar eclipse is a matter of distance and alignment. It is necessary that the moon is interleaved with the sun on a perfect axis and a distance close enough for our plans so that the apparent diameter exceeds the satellite of the sun, covering it completely.
By chance, the eclipse coincides with the spring equinox, when the sun passes the hemisphere South to the North, as well as the “Supermoon” (full moon at perigee, the point where the satellite is closest to Earth).
The alignment between Earth, moon and the sun will be followed by tides Saturday on the shores of the Atlantic, the English Channel and the North Sea.
For the next total solar eclipse, Europe must wait for 2026.
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