Here are some reports form TY Astronomy students Jamie and Evan:
Tar eis Uru na Greine
Today, the
20th March 2015, was the solar eclipse. Although it was very cloudy
we were still able to see the solar eclipse as there was a break in the clouds.
The eclipse began at around 8:30 for us living in Ireland and the maximum
eclipse lasted for a total of 2minutes and 47 seconds.
The eclipse
had many impacts on us. One of these effects was that electricity grids running
off of solar energy would have had a massive decrease as the sun light was
blocked out by the moon. It also became much colder outside due to the moon
blocking the suns light and heat.
Uru ne Greine: Tuairisc
On the 20th
of March 2015, a partial solar eclipse happened from 8:30am in the morning to
10:30am in the morning. The weather was cloudy and this really affected the
outcome of the eclipse as it made it difficult to observe with our pieces of
paper with a hole in them to try and project an image of the sun onto the piece
of paper. However the sun did come out eventually and we did see only 10% of
the sun as the moon was blocking it out as we projected the image onto the
piece of paper.
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