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The opinions, interests, whining and wayward fancies of an eighteen a nineteen twenty year-old Muslim living in a medley of social, religious, non-religious and political chaos that is today’s Pakistan.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Partial Solar Eclipse in Pakistan today!


Greetings everyone ...

While Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, Mongolia, Libya, Togo, Nigeria, Chad etc. (mainly countries in Africa, Central Asia & Europe) experience a full solar eclipse, I am stuck with a partial eclipse in Pakisan, which I cannot see unless of course I am interested in a permanent damage to my retina or partial blindness or something of that kind ... thats what the doctors are saying at least ... they recommend you to build up a pinhole camera (instructions to build one in the same link) ...

Or use solar glasses, if you can get them, but they definitely cannot be replaced by sunglasses.

Wikipedia , as always, gives good information on the entire situation so do not forget to check it out. Check this site too, apparently created solely for the 2006 solar eclipse. And you can watch the actual event over here, sadly not live, but one hour later than the event.

The myths and rituals of eclipses are fascinating to read ... and I loved this article : 'Solar Eclipse in History and Mythology'

Gotta go now ...

posted by Hira @ 1:01 AM  

4 Comments:

  • At 8:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I did see the eclipse but it was no fun coz it was partial anyway! Khyr, jazakallah for commenting on my blog, nice, cool place you've got here too, lol.

    About the flag thingy, lol it sure is messed up. But it could be possible that someone else from US was there, no? I don't know and i dont even care because I cant see it! :( Yeah, after the blog ban, I've not been able to see all those side linkies. A sad affair, but well, a reality. Take care, have a good day! :)

     

  • At 9:51 AM, Blogger Hira said…

    Thank you for dropping by niqabi ... :)

    Yes, someone could have been from the US but then they would have shown like 1 from US, 1 from Pakistan ... anyway ...

    Have you tried using WOL? ... it isn't blocking sites

     

  • At 9:52 AM, Blogger Hira said…

    How did you see the eclipse?

     

  • At 6:22 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I saw it through sun glasses...nothing technologically advanced! lol

    Yaar, WOL...just to switch an ISP because its blocking blogs, i dont know. We have been using World Call for almost 3 years now, its kinda hard to switch to sommet less than cable :$

    By the way...where do you study?

     

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