Crescent Sunrise: Spectacular photos of partial solar eclipse over Europe

Partial solar eclipse visible over Mideast, Europe
GENEVA (AP) — Wintry skies darkened over Switzerland on Tuesday morning, but Romanians were treated to a pinkish ethereal light and Swedes to a beautiful sunrise, as a partial solar eclipse that began over the Mideast extended across much of Europe. In Switzerland, the pall of clouds and light snow seemed like dusk with lights twinkling in cities — time in reverse just as people streamed off trains and buses to arrive at work. The solar occurrence was at its height over Geneva, Bern a...

Partial solar eclipse visible over Mideast, Europe
GENEVA (AP) — Wintry skies darkened over Switzerland on Tuesday morning, but Romanians were treated to a pinkish ethereal light and Swedes to a beautiful sunrise, as a partial solar eclipse that began over the Mideast extended across much of Europe. In Switzerland, the pall of clouds and light snow seemed like dusk with lights twinkling in cities — time in reverse just as people streamed off trains and buses to arrive at work. The solar occurrence was at its height over Geneva, Bern ...

Partial solar eclipse visible over Mideast, Europe
Geneva — Wintry skies darkened over Switzerland on Tuesday morning, but Romanians were treated to a pinkish ethereal light and Swedes to a beautiful sunrise, as a partial solar eclipse that began over the Mideast extended across much of Europe. In Switzerland, the pall of clouds and light snow seemed like dusk with lights twinkling in cities — time in reverse just as people streamed off trains and buses to arrive at work. The solar occurrence was at its height over Geneva, Bern and ...

Partial solar eclipse visible over Mideast, Europe
GENEVA (AP) - Wintry skies darkened over Switzerland on Tuesday morning, but Romanians were treated to a pinkish ethereal light and Swedes to a beautiful sunrise, as a partial solar eclipse that began over the Mideast extended across much of Europe. In Switzerland, the pall of clouds and light snow seemed like dusk with lights twinkling in cities—time in reverse just as people streamed off trains and buses to arrive at work. The solar occurrence was at its height over Geneva, Bern and othe...

One Minute Macro Update
US : Futures higher in the early morning as the market rings in the New Year. With today's data featuring the ISM readings for December, expectations are high for the start of 2011. The week ahead will likely be bolstered by a slew of economic data that should serve to feed the positive tone, however we caution that the risks to the Global Economy remain high. Europe : London closed and eyes return to the periphery with issuance scheduled this week from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta, G...

Solar Eclipse 2011 PHOTOS: Incredible Pictures Of First Partial Eclipse Of The Year
Geneva (AP) — Wintry skies darkened over Switzerland on Tuesday morning, but Romanians were treated to a pinkish ethereal light and Swedes to a beautiful sunrise, as a partial solar Eclipse that began over the Mideast extended across much of Europe. In Switzerland, the pall of clouds and light snow seemed like dusk with lights twinkling in cities – time in reverse just as people streamed off trains and buses to arrive at work. The solar occurrence was at its height over Geneva, Ber...

A Protection Racket
Our regular reader and commenter Sagunto sends this interesting update on the Coptic Church Hit List situation in Holland. We reported in last night’s news feed that Al-Qaeda is threatening Coptic churches in the Netherlands, but Sagunto has even more from one of today’s Newspapers. He says: Just this morning I read about a remarkable initiative by three major Muslim organizations, to “protect” these churches. I’d liken this protection to the kind of “protecti...

Dutch Muslims Offer to Guard Coptic Churches
Sounds like putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse to me. (Al-Arabiya) — Dutch Muslims on Tuesday offered to guard three Coptic churches in the Netherlands which have been threatened on an Al-Qaeda-linked website after a New Year’s Day bombing killed 21 Coptic Christians in Egypt. The Dutch Muslim Council, the Council of Moroccan Mosques in the Netherlands and the Federation of Islamic Organizations “offer protection” to three Dutch Coptic churches which were among 50...

Partial solar eclipse to be visible over Israel on Tuesday
Eclipse will be at its fullest in central Israel at 10:41 A.M., when The Moon will have covered 46 percent of face of sun and 57 percent of its diameter. ...

Partial solar eclipse observed in Europe
ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Sky watchers in Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East observed a partial solar eclipse Tuesday, the first of the New Year, astronomers said. The eclipse was partially visible in the greater Athens area, Greek news agency ANA-MPA reported. At the Athens Planetarium, members of the Hellenic Astronomical Society and amateur astronomers set up telescopes and were on hand to explain the phenomenon to parents and Children gathered to view the eclipse. The eclipse ...

Demeaning confrontation between Europe and its Muslim community brings misery - Will Netherlands win back its country from anti-
AMSTERDAM — Of all Europe’s great and present miseries, the one receiving the most uncertain remedies is the failing integration of its increasingly large and alienated Muslim communities. The wobbling euro, the European Union’s markedly uncertain future as a unified economic force and world political player, its Debt, growth and Deficit levels, all get daily prescriptive counsel from thousands of experts and bystanders. The markets post minute-to-minute fever charts. Up, down...

Israelis enjoy the spectacle of a partial solar eclipse
In central Israel, the eclipse was at its fullest at 10:41 A.M., when The Moon covered 46 percent of the face of the sun....

Year's first partial solar eclipse occurs Tuesday
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Early risers in Madrid, London and Paris take note. The Moon will appear to nip a bite out of the sun Tuesday, a spectacle that will be visible at sunrise across much of Europe. The partial solar eclipse can also be seen from northern Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, where it will occur at sunset. Tuesday's solar show is the first of four partial eclipses of the sun to occur this year. The last time there were this many partial solar eclipses was in 1982. The next ...

Year's first partial solar eclipse occurs Tuesday
Early risers in Madrid, London and Paris take note. The Moon will appear to nip a bite out of the sun Tuesday, a spectacle that will be visible at sunrise across much of Europe. The partial solar eclipse can also be seen from northern Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, where it will occur at sunset. Tuesday's solar show is the first of four partial eclipses of the sun to occur this year. The last time there were this many partial solar eclipses was in 1982. The next time will be in 2029. ...

Years first partial solar eclipse occurs Tuesday
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Early risers in Madrid, London and Paris take note. The Moon will appear to nip a bite out of the sun Tuesday, a spectacle that will be visible at sunrise across much of Europe. The partial solar eclipse can also be seen from northern Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, where it will occur at sunset. Tuesday’s solar show is the first of four partial eclipses of the sun to occur this year. The last time there were this many partial solar eclipses was in 1982. ...

'Wonder' of partial solar eclipse
A partial solar eclipse has taken place over Europe, the Middle East, Russia and northwest China. The eclipse was greatest over Northern Europe, with spectators in Sweden seeing as much as 85% of the sun's disc blacked out....

Rising Anti-Semitism in the Netherlands
Via Blazing Catfur: RELATED : "Prominent Jews Leave Amsterdam over Anti-Semitism." ...

Full-size megazoom cameras
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 Cnet rating: 4 stars out of 5 (excellent) The good: Outstanding feature set and shooting options; fast shooting performance. The bad: Menu system can get confusing; JPEG photo quality tanks at ISO 400. The cost: $374 to $500 The bottom line: As long as you're willing to work with raw image files, the Lumix DMC-FZ100 is one of the best full-size megazooms you can get. Grey skies mar views of solar eclipse
Europe was given a front-row seat on Tuesday to the first solar Eclipse of 2011 only to find that in many places a thick curtain of cloud marred the spectacle. In London, Paris and Rome, hopes for a spooky darkening of the winter skies at sunrise were dashed by dense cloud which turned the event into a grey mush. "Aaah so much hype of an eclipse... all I saw was the usual British cloud!!!" said Twitter contributor Romana Alli in Britain. "Finally, I saw the Eclipse after all, through a little...

Solar Eclipse amazes Europeans
Solar Eclipse: In Rome, cloudy skies made the Jan. 4 solar eclipse a touch eerie as The Moon appeared to take a bite out of the sun during the three-hour eclipse....

First Meteor Shower of 2011 Could Dazzle Tonight
By Tariq Malik This story originally appeared on Space.com The first meteor display of 2011 - the annual Quadrantid meteor shower - will hit its peak tonight and, weather permitting, could dazzle observers across the Northern Hemisphere, skywatchers say. This sky map shows where to look in the northeastern sky to spot the annual Quadrantid meteor shower, which peaks overnight on Jan. 3 and Jan. 4, 2011. It will appear between and below the Big Dipper and Little Dipper constellations. (Credit:...

First Solar, Chinese Company Partner In Massive Solar Plant
Beijing — A U.S. company said Wednesday it wants to start construction this year in China of one of the world's biggest solar Power Plants after forming a partnership with a major state-owned utility company. First Solar Inc. announced plans in 2009 for the facility in northern China's Inner Mongolia region. The company said it hoped to break ground in mid-2010 but a pre-feasibility study was not approved until September and Regulators delayed approval of higher payment rates for solar-gener...

Photo: A bite of sunshine
An employee of the Stefanik Observatory in Prague uses a projection shield to show the partial solar eclipse visible in the Czech capital on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Photo: AP Photo/CTK, Michal Kamaryt Skywatchers across Europe, the Middle East and Asia were treated to the first partial solar eclipse of 2011 this morning. A partial eclipse occurs when The Moon passes between the Earth and the sun, but the celestial bodies are not exactly in line with each other. The moon only partially obscures ...

Ed Lee poised to become Mayor of San Francisco
Demeaning confrontation between Europe and its Muslim community brings misery - Will Netherlands win back its country from anti-Semites? Does Wikileaks spell the end of the press as we know it? City Administrator Ed Lee is poised to become the next mayor of San Francisco, after seven members of the Board of Supervisors pledged to support Lee for interim mayor on Tuesday night. Exactly when the appointment will become official waits on Mayor Gavin Newsom. The lieutenant-governor elect has not yet...

Freight ferry service to reopen
A direct freight service from Scotland to mainland Europe is to open later. DFDS Seaways will run the service from Rosyth to Zeebrugge with two ships, and four departures a week sailing from each port. The first ferry was scheduled to depart from Fife at 0600 GMT and arrive in Belgium at 1200 local time on Thursday. The company closed its combined freight-passenger ferry service on the route in December, blaming insufficient passenger demand. Two ferries will now operate on the route and saili...