How does the eclipse of the sun feel like?
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Nothing. A slight change in temperature if that. Kind of like a cloud going over the sun. All it is after all is a shadow passing across the sun.
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/2006/index.html\nget ready to watch
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Extremly pale misty blue and you can see the moon which appears stark white right now-\nI wish it was a golden orange sky like right when the sun goes down thats my favorite I wish it could stay dusk for atleast 5 hours or so that would be so COOL
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It's basically how much colder the wind makes it feel like outside. That's why the weather websites (http://www.weather.com/) they tell you the actual temperature and what it really feels like. The "what it feels like" temperature is the actual temperature minus the wind chill.
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1.  see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse\n\n2.  see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse
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There are two types of eclipses. Solar and lunar. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun.  A lunar eclipse is when the Earth casts it's shadow on the moon, basically the Earth passes between the sun and the moon.
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SOLAR Eclipse Is When The MOON Is Directly Between The EARTH And SUN (Blocking The Suns Rays From The Earth)
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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. Due to a remarkable coincidence, the apparent size of the moon of the sky is almost exactly the same as the apparent size of the sun, and from our point of view here on Earth, it seems to gradually "cover" the sun.
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The speed of the projected shadow upon the surface of the Earth is going to be nearly the same for every eclipse, but this effective speed does increase depending on where the shadow falls relative to the curvature of the planet.\n\nSize adds another variable, since the moon's distance from the earth varies.  In some eclipses (like an annular) the shadow of totality does not reach the surface of the earth, so the size can be as small as zero. Images in this wiki article will help you visualize this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse#Geometry_of_an_eclipse\n\nSo, if I assume the moon is at its closest and the eclipse is happening with the sun/moon at an altitude of 90 degrees (noon at the equator on an equinox, for instance) I find a shadow size of a ~250km and a speed of ~1km/s.  You can approximately calculate the distortion to the shadow by multiplying by the secant of the sun's in the sky.  This actually calculates the size of the shadow on a plane tangent to the surface of the earth (rather than along the curved surface itself). Note that it is stretched only in the direction of the line passing through the observer, the moon and the sun. The speed of the shadow would scale in the same way.
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it depends on your place in space. are you in a straight line with a planet and sun,  then there is night and vice versa
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The short answer is: Yes.\n\nI think the previous people who attempted to answer this question did not read it carefully. \n\nThe atmosphere is in layers, of different densities, that refract the sunlight and different colors different amounts. The light is bent downwards because the speed of light in the upper layers is greater than the speed of light in the layers closer to the ground. One can see this effect in the change in shape of the sun as it sets, and the effects like disconnected pieces of sun, green flashes,etc. This is just the same as the effect that creates mirages, or the spurious images of water on or above dry roads in the heat. \n\nSo it is definitely true, that the sun has already gone below the horizon, when we still view its image.
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What is an eclipse of the Sun? What causes eclipses and why? How often do eclipses happen and when is the next eclipse of the Sun? You'll learn the answers to these questions and more in MrEclipse's primer on solar eclipses. Before we find more about the eclipses of the Sun, we need to first talk about the Moon. \n\nThe Moon is a cold, rocky body about 2,160 miles (3,476 km) in diameter. It has no light of its own but shines by sunlight reflected from its surface. The Moon orbits Earth about once every 29 and a half days. As it circles our planet, the changing position of the Moon with respect to the Sun causes our natural satellite to cycle through a series of phases: \n\nNew, New Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full, \nWaning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Old Crescent and back to New again.\n\n\n\nPhases of theMoon. \nThe phase known as New Moon can not actually be seen because the illuminated side of the Moon is then pointed away from Earth. The rest of the phases are familiar to all of us as the Moon cycles through them month after month. Did you realize that the word month is derived from the Moon's 29.5 day period? \n\nTo many early civilizations, the Moon's monthly cycle was an important tool for measuring the passage of time. In fact many calendars are synchronized to the phases of the Moon. The Hebrew, Muslem and Chinese calendars are all lunar calendars. The New Moon phase is uniquely recognized as the beginning of each calendar month just as it is the beginning on the Moon's monthly cycle. When the Moon is New, it rises and sets with the Sun because it lies very close to the Sun in the sky. Although we cannot see the Moon during New Moon phase, it has a very special significance with regard to eclipses. \n\n\n\nBasic Geometry of the Sun, Moon and Earth During an Eclipse of the Sun \nAn eclipse of the Sun (or solar eclipse) can only occur at New Moon when the Moon passes between Earth and Sun. If the Moon's shadow happens to fall upon Earth's surface at that time, we see some portion of the Sun's disk covered or 'eclipsed' by the Moon. Since New Moon occurs every 29 1/2 days, you might think that we should have a solar eclipse about once a month. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen because the Moon's orbit around Earth is tilted 5 degrees to Earth's orbit around the Sun. As a result, the Moon's shadow usually misses Earth as it passes above or below our planet at New Moon. At least twice a year, the geometry lines up just right so that some part of the Moon's shadow falls on Earth's surface and an eclipse of the Sun is seen from that region. \n\nThe Moon's shadow actually has two parts: \n\nPenumbra - Faint outer shadow; partial eclipses are seen from within this shadow. \n\nUmbra- Dark inner shadow; total eclipses are seen from within this shadow. \n\nWhen only the Moon's penumbral shadow strikes Earth, we see a partial eclipse of the Sun from that region. Partial eclipses are dangerous to look at because the un-eclipsed part of the Sun is still very bright. You must use special filters or a home-made pinhole projector to safely watch a partial eclipse of the Sun (see: Eclipses & Eye Safety). \n\nHowever, if the Moon's dark umbral shadow sweeps across Earth's surface, then a total eclipse of the Sun is seen (see figure below). The track of the Moon's shadow across Earth's surface is called the Path of Totality. It is typically 10,000 miles long but only 100 miles or so wide. In order to see the Sun totally eclipsed by the Moon, you must be in the path of totality. \n\n\n\nTotal Solar Eclipse and the Path of Totality \nThe total phase of a solar eclipse is very brief. It rarely lasts more than several minutes. Nevertheless, it is considered to be one of the most awe inspiring spectacles in all of nature. The sky takes on an eerie twilight as the Sun's bright face is replaced by the black disk of the Moon. Surrounding the Moon
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The moon moves from South to North and back again throughout the year.  This is how the ancients kept track of it usually, especially of the solstices and equinoxes.  This motion is accurate and how they can predict future eclipses.\n\nhttp://www.aaa.org/aaahighlowmoon.htm
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On Wednesday, 2006 March 29, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in Brazil and extends across the Atlantic, northern Africa, and central Asia where it ends at sunset in western Mongolia. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes the northern two thirds of Africa, Europe, and central Asia.\n----------------------------------------------\nMaps and tables for 7000 years of lunar and solar eclipses, eclipse photographs, observing tips, and eye safety information.... then follow the link....\nhttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
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Moses and Campbelp have it right--the fluorescent light is closer and of larger apparent size (especially if it is a long tube!).  The sun's shadows are not perfectly sharp because it has some size.  This is the cause of the "penumbral" lunar eclipse, when the moon dims but is not fully eclipsed, as it passes through the dim but not dark portion of the Earth's shadow (the penumbra--the darkest part of a shadow is the umbra).
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The sun will be directly overhead at 12 noon.  The horizontal path the sun follows traced by its position at sunrise on different days along the horizon, well it'll be in the middle (kinda hard to see this one unless you're tracking the sun somehow, like in the movie Cast Away).  The amount of sunlight will be exactly 12 hours on the equator and will be a function of latitude for anywhere else (such as 12*cos(latitude) for anywhere else in the world).  Other than that, I can't think of anything.  Nothing grandiose happens...
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The moon, when passing between the Earth and the Sun, in the proper angle, temporarily blocks sunlight and thus causes the eclipse.\n\nMore info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/solar_eclipse