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06-08-2004, 04:52 AM
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Solar Eclipse - Venis!
About 3pm today in Australia, Venus for a few brief moments, blocked the suns path... and then.. the solar eclipse began.
It was only visible from Europe and Australia i believe. Anyone catch it?
Anyway, it was like seeing a photo-chopped photo - only it wasnt!
Heres the article:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...?oneclick=true
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06-08-2004, 07:27 AM
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Since I'm not in Australia or Europe right now, I didn't see it. 
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06-08-2004, 11:46 AM
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It was visible in the Western Hemisphere too Badmihai, if you had gotten up and looked at the sun with a pinhole camera or through a telescope with a solar filter, you would have seen it from 6:00am to about 7:05am. I set my alarm and was ready to do so, but I forgot to turn the fucking thing on, so now I'm gonna have to wait until 2012 to see it.
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06-08-2004, 12:06 PM
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it sounds interesting but i have to register to the site to read the artivle...
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06-08-2004, 01:33 PM
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I could have, but there was overcast
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06-08-2004, 03:57 PM
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It showed in the US around 4:30 - 6:30am. I woke up in time to see it. It was cool, just something that you might never get a chance to see again.
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06-08-2004, 05:20 PM
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I was like "wow, let's get the telescope out" some weeks ago, but then I forgot about the whole thing. No, didn't see it.
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06-08-2004, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by nejcdolinsek
I could have, but there was overcast |
same here.. its been cloudy all day so it wasn't possible to see it
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06-09-2004, 01:53 AM
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i diden't see squat
it burned my eyes when i tried to look thoe.
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