I hope they come back in one piece,” he said. “All the team have had to do safety training, including polar bear training. Morgan has witnessed eclipses in the Libyan Sahara, the Gobi desert and on Tahiti, but is staying home this time. There’s this huge jump in temperature as you move away from the heat source.” ![]() “The corona is 1m to 2m degrees Kelvin, but the surface is only about 6,000 Kelvin. “It’s one of the big mysteries of astronomy,” said Morgan. The moment the sun is totally blocked out, the scientists will study its corona, in the hope of learning why it is so much hotter than the rest of the sun. Huw Morgan, from Aberystwyth University, is sending two PhD students to Svalbard’s main town, Longyearbyen, to assemble telescopes for a project run by Shadia Habbal, from the University of Hawaii. Scientists from all over the world are on their way to observe the total eclipse. The society ordered 100 pairs of viewing glasses for people to wear at the event. Even people on the island didn’t know we existed,” he said. We’ve lived a quiet life for a while, but this is putting our name in front on people. If you’re not on the Faroe Isles or in Svalbard, this is best place to be. He plans to get to the stones at 5.30am to set up two telescopes fitted with special filters to observe the eclipse. We’ve had inquiries from Southampton, Portsmouth, Dublin, Cork and even Munich,” said Donny Mackay, president of the SAS. Hundreds of people, possibly more, are expected to arrive at the Callanish Stones on Friday morning, where the Stornoway Astronomical Society (SAS) is holding a public viewing. ![]() The UK will not see another total eclipse until 2090.Ĭlear skies permitting, the best place in the UK to watch the eclipse is the Isle of Lewis where the moon will cover about 98% of the sun. ![]() The last total eclipse visible from Britain was in 1999 when thousands of people descended on Devon and Cornwall to experience the eerie spell of daytime darkness. From around 8.25am in the UK, the moon will start to hide more than 90% of the sun in Scotland, and about 85% in London. In Britain and much of the rest of Europe, the eclipse will be only partial.
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