Heads up! Especially on Friday. Then it will be visible on the Polish partial solar eclipse. If you miss out on this extraordinary phenomenon, that’s for another chance you’ll have to wait until 2026 years.
Over the Polish shield starts to overlap the moon into the sun for hours. 9.43. The maximum phase of the eclipse will reach about 10.52, and will end shortly after 12.
The Moon obscures the Sun in about 70 per cent. Polish inhabitants of the northern regions will have a little better view – Swinoujscie will be 76 per cent., And 73 per cent in Gdansk. The further south, the solar disc will see more. Eclipse of the smallest phase – 57 percent. – See the inhabitants of the Bieszczady mountains.
In Poland, we will have to settle for a partial eclipse. Breeds some places on the globe will be able to feast your eyes but the total eclipse. So it will be, among others, the Faroe Islands and Spitsbergen.
Over our country, this phenomenon will be observable only after 120 years – in 2135 years! A little faster, because the “already” in August 2026 years, we will see a partial eclipse again, however – as reserve experts – the view may be less spectacular than Friday, because it will start at approx. 19.
Recall that a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, totally or partially obscuring the sunlight reaching the planet.
How is it possible, however, if the diameter of the Sun is 400 times the diameter of the Moon? Well, quite a remarkable phenomenon owe extraordinary coincidence. The tiny moon is able to override the huge sun, because it is 400 times closer to the Earth.
Bad omen?
Today, the above knowledge is not surprising, but in the world of the ancient solar eclipses are very important omen – the most awe-inspiring, which did not fail to take advantage of the phenomenal writing Boleslaw Prus ‘Pharaoh’.
The ancient scholars have learned to determine the estimated time of the eclipse, about 1000 BC However, the calculations were very inaccurate. When 585 years BC there was a solar eclipse spectacle terrified Lidyjczycy Medes and stopped the battle on the river stink bug in Asia Minor. The ancients were afraid that gods, dissatisfied with their actions, “take” the sun.
Over the centuries, this remarkable astronomical phenomenon surprised people. He was surprised, for example, Wladyslaw Jagiełła, the total solar eclipse of June 1415 years Losing during a trip to Lithuania.
“In the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi, about the third hour, on the third prayers called, the great solar eclipse is revealed that as something unexpected and unknown King Wladyslaw and all who were traveling with him first in amazement, and then had put superstitious fear. This was great because the birds scared the sudden darkness settled upon the earth, and the stars shone like the night; The same King Władysław because of the darkness was forced to stop and not before he could move forward, until the eclipse is not over “- described the event in his chronicles, Jan Dlugosz.
How to watch?
To observe the eclipse amateur astronomy telescope is unnecessary because the phenomenon will be visible to the naked eye. However, experts recommend watching the sun through special filters that protect our eyes from harmful solar radiation.
Safe will include the Mylar foil Baader ND5, special glasses equipped with appropriate filters, dark welding glass and of course solar telescope.
From the popular okopconymi panes, sunglasses, photographic clichés and X-rays is better not to risk it.
Eclipse is not the only astronomical phenomenon with which we have to deal on Friday. On that day, in the chair. 23.45 start as astronomical spring. And this is very good news, because it means that until the beginning of astronomical autumn in September, days are longer than nights.
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