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"To see the total eclipse you need to travel to some remote Arctic regions of northern Canada, Greenland and Siberia, before it ends in Mongolia and China. The eclipse can be seen more easily live on the internet."

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A partial solar eclipse will be seen in India tomorrow while the north-eastern parts of the country will see quite a large fraction of the disc of the Sun, eclipsed by the Moon.

"The partial eclipse will be seen in the north-eastern region, starting from about 4 PM" - Rathnasree, Director Nehru Planetarium.

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Eclipse invite at clock tower
Scarborough people will have the chance to witness a partial eclipse of the sun later this week.
One of the best places to view the event is likely to be at Holbeck Clock Tower, in Esplanade, on Friday from 9.30am onwards, where local astronomers will be setting up.

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Live Webcast:
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory
NASA TV

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NASA, in partnership with the Exploratorium Science Center, San Francisco, Calif., and the University of California at Berkeley, will transmit live images of the Aug. 1, 2008, total eclipse of the sun.

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In Germany and Europe, those who are unaware of or uncaring about this fairly rare event will probably not even notice it. The moon's dark limb will achieve maximum partial coverage of the sun in northeastern Germany. Nevertheless, about 20 percent of the diameter of the sun will be in shadow over Berlin at around 11:32 Central European Summer Time (3:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time); in Freiburg, in southern Germany, unfortunately, only about 6 percent.

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 Firstly, let me stress that the Sun is dangerous, and at no time should anyone chance looking at it either with the unaided eye or with any optical aid even when near the horizon.  You will be bringing to a focus all of the heat and light onto your eye, and the result will be blindness!
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Solar filters are essential for safe eclipse and solar observation.
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One tip to view the eclipse is to use a CD as a  filter to protect your eyes.
Although the  quality will be poor the solar disk and the obstructing disk of the Moon  can be  discerned.
But don't use CDs that have thin aluminium coatings which will not be safe for viewing the eclipse. If the CD is semi-transparent in normal room lighting, don't use it.
The CD aluminium coating has to be dense enough so the glowing filament of an incandescent light bulb is just barely visible through it.
And remember it is only for non magnified viewing.

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Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and northern parts of Jordan and Palestine will also witness the eclipse.

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Scientists from San Francisco's Exploratorium, after hauling a thousand pounds of telescopes and computers by truck, are camped on the edge of the Gobi desert in far-off western China right now, ready to Webcast images of Friday's total eclipse of the sun around the world.
The  start of their Webcast feed is at 10:30 - 11:30 UT Friday. During totality at 4:09 a.m. PDT, the team's four telescopes will train on features like the sun's flaring prominences and its brilliant corona.

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Aberdeen, Scotland (Latitude 57.150, Longitude -2.124)

Start of partial eclipse : (1st contact) 09:24 BST
Mid eclipse : 10:18 BST
End of partial eclipse : (4th contact) 11:15 BST
Obscuration: 27.78%

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On Friday, August 1, 2008, the moon will pass in front of the sun, blocking the everyday solar surface.
When that happens, it gets a million times darker outside, allowing the faint outer layers of the sun to be seen and studied.
Scientists Jay Pasachoff and Bryce Bab**** of Williams College are leading an expedition to Siberia so as to station themselves and their equipment in the path of totality (the phase of an eclipse when it is total), which is only hundreds of miles wide in spite of being thousands of miles long.

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