Netherlands is preparing to see the largest partial eclipse since 1999. Friday is this eclipse throughout the country, provided that the clouds do not obstruct the view. When should you be ready? It is really dark? And if you do not eclipse glasses at hand, sunglasses sufficient whatsoever? NRC.nl searched it out.
What is an eclipse anyway?
A solar eclipse, also called solar eclipse occurs at the moment when the moon during the day between the earth and the sun will be placed. The moon casts its shadow over the earth, so the sunlight does not reach the earth. A total solar eclipse is not common, but it is possible. The sun is four hundred times larger than the moon, but also is four hundred times further away. Therefore, it can create a complete blackout.
When is the eclipse?
Around 9:30 the moon moves the sun. More than an hour later, at 10:37 pm, the eclipse is up about eighty percent, and the sun slowly emerges as a whole. Something for twelve is the solar eclipse over.
> Eclipse March 20 2015. Photo ANP / Infographics
In the Netherlands Friday morning not a complete blackout and very dark it is therefore not. A place where there is a total solar eclipse is seen, the Faroe Islands.
No sense, no time?
On the job and no time to go out to view the eclipse? That’s too bad. For the next big solar eclipse because you have to wait more than ten years: this will take place on August 12, 2026. The last major blackout that was seen in the Netherlands, dated 11 August 1999. When there was an eclipse of about 95 percent. Only in 2135 will, for the first time since 1715, again a full eclipse will be visible in the Netherlands.
eclipse eyeglasses not at hand?
The eclipse glasses are on. In recent weeks, there are over three hundred thousand free glasses handed out to watch the eclipse. Caution half with your hands to stand before your eyes, or sunglasses up, can cause direct damage to your eyes as Zonsverduistering.nl:
“There are other safe ways view the eclipse. Go at least not worry with CDs, photo negatives or stain slides. The chance that you will damage your eyes, is present. “
But do not worry, there are according to the website plenty of other options to still view the eclipse without the chance to damage walk to your eyes. The three most obvious options:
- welding glass: A welding glass with darkening factor of 13 or more is definitely safe. For sale at the do-it-yourself store
- Hole Camera:. Take a sturdy piece of cardboard the size of a postcard. Puncture in the middle a hole with a diameter of about one millimeter. Keep the card in the sun and let it zonsbeeld projected on a white sheet of paper fall that keeps you on about two feet behind the cardboard. The projected image can be viewed without problems, even with multiple people simultaneously. So do not look at the sun, but a projection of the Sun
- Watch Live:. You can follow the eclipse over the internet on various websites, such Slooh.com. You can also see the total eclipse, as is observable in the Faroe Islands. Many public observatories organize an additional activity and you can follow the eclipse with large telescopes. Look at the list of all Dutch public observatories in the Netherlands.
What are the myths?
Around the eclipse cartoon character Tintin almost inseparable. Ask someone what he thinks of the word ‘eclipse’ and the chances are that the answer is Tintin. Thanks Tintin and the Temple of the Sun can we know what an eclipse for crushing impression. As NRC journalist Danielle Pinedo wrote:
“Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus would undoubtedly by the Incas at the stake are roasted, as Tintin not in a newspaper had read that on the day of his execution an eclipse would occur. Tintin Tintin and would not be able to exploit this knowledge. If he is the sun god Pachacamac from the pyre successfully asks for a sign of disapproval, the trio will be released immediately. “
Less known is that Tintin and the Temple of the Sun is derived from a legend. Pinedo:
“The story goes that last century a Belgian captain with twenty men in the Belgian Congo was captured by a small tribe of cannibals. Chief Yembio would be prisoner, one Albert Paulis, unceremoniously have put in the pot, were it not that just before his trial in his almanac read that there was a lunar eclipse that night on the program. “If you give me or my men even one hair hurts,” Paulis must have thrown the chief, “I worry that the moon dies.” Yembio challenged to make the captain of his threat true. When darkness at the expected time occurred, the chief threw himself humbly to the ground; Belgian colonialists were at once six thousand square kilometers and a half million African cannibals richer. “
What are the consequences eclipse?
In a total solar eclipse, touches the nature of its balance sheet. The incident makes twilight than birds stop to roost with flutes and chickens. After the eclipse begin with roosters crowing and bees fly out again. Because in the Netherlands there will be a partial eclipse, it falls along with the impact on nature. However, the eclipse affects the power supply. Because solar panels are a time without the sun, there is a sharp dip in the production of these panels.
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