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Particular expert in eclipses (both solar and lunar), but able to answer most questions about astronomy or refer to a website that can help

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Have been interested in eclipses since August 1999 and hope to see the annular eclipse in Scotland next year


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Recent Answers from Harry Hayfield

2011-11-12 Things to do on a budget.....:

Absolutely! There are loads of projects where they ask ordinary astronomers (armed very often with nothing more complex than a pair of binoculars) to look out for certain things which when gathered together

2011-05-23 Lunar Eclipse Visible from Earth:

This map http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2011-Fig03.pdf shows the area of the Earth that will be able to see the eclipse. Dark means no eclipse can be seen, white means an eclipse can be seen

2011-05-21 Same Eclipse from Different Place:

Indeed they can (which can be a regular pain in the neck on occasions). The last total solar eclipse visible from India was in 2009. If you lived in the city of Surat, you would have experienced a total

2010-09-28 Interpreting shadows:

Indeed, all that information would be used to calculate time and season. If I may elaborate (using a possible scene that you could use)    "There's a clue in this picture, I just know it. Come on, concentrate!

2010-08-24 further questions on how far we can see into space:

When you look up during the day, the furthest thing you can see is the sun. The sun is 93 million miles from us and light takes about 8 minutes to reach us, therefore the sun you are looking at is how

 

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