Such was the solar eclipse in Gdansk [VIDEO] – Gazeta.pl

A solar eclipse is not a rare phenomenon. There is two or three times a year. Not from anywhere in the world but you can see the moon on the background of our star. On Friday in the Tri eclipse was visible up to 75 percent. surface of the sun. We had more luck than Hevelius, who in 1654. Regretfully wrote that through the thick clouds did not see the eclipse. The next such event will be visible only in 2026.

Plates, glasses and telescopes

Even before the hour. 10 crowd was in Gdansk Hewelianum Centre. At the entrance to the poterny, underground passage, set up solar telescopes. It is with their help could be seen not only the eclipse, but also spots and flares.

– prepared telescopes, with which you can safely watch the solar eclipse. They are equipped with special filters that let in only a small part of the beam – explains Magdalena Wiecek, an astronomer at the Center Hewelianum.

Visitors on Friday Gdansk forts got a cardboard glasses with slides, allowing look at the sun. Some people, however, came with its own “equipment”. They were … X-rays, removable mylar discs from old floppy disks and CDs. O h. 10.30 have all the hills at the Gdansk forts were full of amateur astronomers. Many people also have special transparencies and lenses, so you can shoot the sun without damaging the matrix.

The observatory give live

Solar Eclipse also observed students and teachers in Gdańsk Autonomous Schools. Observatory located there led a live broadcast for sitting in the auditorium of students. Also on the school playground were spaced telescopes through which students observe the phenomenon.

– To view the sun through a telescope, we must impose a filter that shelled one emitted by the sun color. It’s as if the spectrum sześciometrowego pulled one specific color that has a few centimeters. In this case, it has a couple of inches and it is a red color emitted by hydrogen – says Krzysztof Horodecki, inventor and founder of the observatory in the GSA. – In this way you can see the details that normally suppresses glow sun.

Horodecki also explained the phenomenon of solar eclipse.

– The moon is really a tiny object. Given its distance from the Sun, it’s kind of like a pin zasłał łepek us 15-centimeter ball distant from us about 15 m – says Horodecki. – It is not a rare phenomenon, but it is harder to observe.

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