OKLAHOMA CITY - Get ready stargazers!
The Oklahoma City Astronomy Club will host a public viewing of a partial solar eclipse which will be visible from central Oklahoma Thursday afternoon.
Club members will set up specially filtered telescopes at Windsurfers Point on the northeast corner of Lake Hefner.
The partial eclipse will begin at 4:41 p.m. and reach maximum coverage about 5:49 p.m. The moon will only obscure less than half of the solar disk at maximum, so casual observers will probably not notice an appreciable decline in sunlight. The eclipse will be clearly visible in club scopes which are equipped with special solar filters or to project the image on a screen. The eclipse will still be in progress at sunset as seen from Oklahoma City.
Entities 0 Name: OKLAHOMA CITY Count: 2 1 Name: Lake Hefner Count: 1 2 Name: Oklahoma City Astronomy Club Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1vJ6Xpu Title: Partial Solar Eclipse Graces Skies on Thursday Description: Andrew Fazekas Published October 21, 2014 The sun and moon play hide and seek on Thursday, as the lunar silhouette glides across the solar disk in a partial solar eclipse visible across much of North America. The shadow of the rare partial solar eclipse first falls on Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula at 2:37 p.m.
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