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On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 2:43 pm
by phuketrichard
cool;
The skies will go dark in Thailand around midday on Boxing Day. The sun will partly vanish and a ghostly pall will shadow the Kingdom. But it’s all good. It’s a solar eclipse, a completely natural phenomenon.
While Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia will all enjoy a full solar eclipse, Thailand will experience a partial one, whereby the moon only partly obscures the sun. In Bangkok, the sun will be obscured by 56%, and by 40% in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Mai. However, Yala will witness the most impressive spectacle, with the moon set to eclipse 81% of the sun in the southern city.
The skies will go dark in Thailand around midday on Boxing Day. The sun will partly vanish and a ghostly pall will shadow the Kingdom. But it’s all good. It’s a solar eclipse, a completely natural phenomenon.
While Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia will all enjoy a full solar eclipse, Thailand will experience a partial one, whereby the moon only partly obscures the sun. In Bangkok, the sun will be obscured by 56%, and by 40% in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Mai. However, Yala will witness the most impressive spectacle, with the moon set to eclipse 81% of the sun in the southern city.
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:28 pm
by pczz
i hope someone had the wits to warn the thais not to look at it with the naked eye!
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 8:51 am
by phuketrichard
countdown;
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:01 am
by SternAAlbifrons
Good luck Solar fans.
I have been thru a few fairly complete solar eclipses, One "total".
Quite dramatic, in a spooky kind of way.
Definitely worth catching, better than drugs - you get a kind of strange sense of dis-location on a really deep level.
All your inbuilt unconscious senses are screaming - Hang on, something is just not right here!
'Hope you get a good one!
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:31 am
by Doc67
It lasts for nearly four hours which seems odd, I saw a total eclipse in 1999 in the UK and it was all over and done with in less than 30 mins if my memory serves me. Anyway, here's the map...
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:20 am
by phuketrichard
8/21/2017 in the states
rally cool at 1:26
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:36 am
by Anthony's Weiner
pczz wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:28 pm
i hope someone had the wits to warn the thais not to look at it with the naked eye!
A person would have to be really stupid or maybe just uneducated to look at an eclipse with the naked eye
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:44 am
by Captain Bonez
You can use an xray to see it. I just took the best photo you're going to see of this thing today.
Re: On Boxing Day the skies will go dark across Thailand – solar eclipse
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:50 am
by pczz
Captain Bonez wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:44 am
You can use an xray to see it. I just took the best photo you're going to see of this thing today.
