Today's Total Eclipse of the Sun!

[porky]

I was able to find a couple information on how the solar eclipse affects reef fish.
http://www.darwinfoundation.org/articles/n6000129906.html
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1998.tb01010.x

However, I was not able to find a lot of info on the affect of a solar eclipse on the corals themselves.
I wonder how much this has been studied? Or if the eclipse has any affect on corals at all?

A solar eclipse seen in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, March 29, 2006. Schoolchildren cheered Wednesday as the first total eclipse in years plunged Ghana into daytime darkness, an eagerly awaited solar show that will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia. (AP Photo/Olivier Asselin)

This TV image provided by NASA Wednesday March 29, 2006 shows two solar flares seen during the total solar eclipse captured in Turkey's Mediterranean town of Side. The last such eclipse in November 2003 was best viewed from Antarctica, said Alex Young, a NASA scientist involved in solar research. Total eclipses are rare because they require the tilted orbits of the sun, moon and earth to line up exactly so that the moon obscures the sun completely. The next total eclipse will occur in 2008.

 

[szwab]

too bad we won't see it.

maybe just because I can I'll give my tank an eclipe. so my red sea fish will feel more at home

 

[ANGELREEF]

Hi Porky. That's nice of you to post those pictures. I have seen a total eclipse of the sun. It is a little dark about 7 PM in comparrison. We used a negative film to see the eclipse when it is happening to protect your eyes. The animals things it's nightime and even rooster begins to make clacking noises. I think it will not affect our aquarium animals because we have lights but the reefs maybe. It does not take long for the sun to appear again (less than 3 mins.) so the animals in the reefs maynot be affected at all. imo.

 

[jakano]

we had an eclipse about 10-12 years ago, i believe only a partial one. i happen to be fishing at the time and once the eclipse started i caught so many fish in the hour or so that it lasted my arm was tired.

 

[porky]

Hi Angelreef! So you have seen a total eclipse? I think that would be awesome... I kinda think that corals would not be affected too much. Since it is so short, it may just be like a heavy cloudy passing in front of the sun or something...
Jakano, that is very interesting considering the only info I found was regarding the changes in fish behavior.

 

[digitaldego77]

Is this anything like a Total Eclipse of the Heart?

 

[hollback]

I've been waiting for the perfect moment to post that link and you beat me to it!

 

[AcroSteve]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7068193#post7068193 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by digitaldego77
Is this anything like a Total Eclipse of the Heart?

Come on man!! You can't post that stuff!! Seriously, I saw his butt crack!

My eyes, My eyes. Heck, as far as that goes, my ears, my ears.


Where do you guys come up with this stuff? :lol:

 

[digitaldego77]

It is actually very relevant - Total Eclipse of the Sun, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and a Full Moon!

 

[porky]

Just when you think you have seen it all...
There are some real weirdo's out there man.

 

[digitaldego77]

.......turn around, bright eyes................:lol: :lol: :lol:

gotta hand it to those Europeans. They sure drum up the weirdos.

 

[cfishrun]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7067751#post7067751 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jakano
we had an eclipse about 10-12 years ago, i believe only a partial one.

I remember that! I think I was in 3rd grade. The whole school was outside watching and to protect our eyes from the UV they made us look through film strips (and something else, but I cant remember ). It was pretty wild to see the sun take on a crescent shape, and then disappear! It did happen pretty fast though; I bet it only took 30 minutes from the time the moon first crossed the sun's path until it moved back out of the way; and the period of total eclipse was VERY brief.

 

[Hormigaquatica]

Yup, I remember that one; I was in 6th grade. We werent allowed to go outside cause the school didnt get us the eye glasses things, but we kept opening the blinds to look anyways We covered one window with black paper and poked a hole in it and laid a sheet of paper on the floor too so we could track the sun and watch the shadow of the eclipse indirectly. Every few minutes or so someone would go trace the outline of it.
I remember people kept moving the paper around.. since "someone keeps moving this, cause the tracing isnt in the same spot every time...."

 

[cfishrun]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7069640#post7069640 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hormigaquatica
the eye glasses things

Yeah! I remember now... they were these special thick-lens sun glasses. There were about 5 of those that got passed around, and everyone else either had film strips or had to stare at the ground. I looked anyways though; I was such a rebel!

 

[newsalt1]

I remember as a kid in the 60's watching an eclipse here in Cleveland suburbs. Maybe mid 60's 64 or 65 it was totaly awsome. If I remember correctly we looked at it through a pin hole in a piece of card board. Memories are a little sketchy.

 

[MattandJenCook]

I think we used mylar