

Please note some items are NOT eligible for finance. As long as the item is above £250, finance is generally available! You will need to email us or drop into the shop to sort out finance. Please note this can't be done through the website at this moment in time. Rother Valley is now available on most products above £250! We offer 12, 24, 36 and 48 months with a fixed 15.9% typical APR. So happy shopping and if you have any questions about the scheme or any other queries, please get in touch. Before placing orders online, please make sure you are registered with us first otherwise your points won't be allocated. Customers who order via the telephone can still be added to the scheme manually but you need to inform us within two weeks of your purchase. Then you can come to our shop, collect your item and still get your points! Contact us if want to confirm which products are eligible.Įven if you collect most of your items from our shop, you can still order via the website and select the "shop collection" delivery option. You can accumulate these points as you shop with us, then when you are over £5, you can spend them on the website! Easy as that. Each pound you spend with us, you will receive 1 loyalty point. Rother Valley Optics now have a loyalty point scheme active on the website. If you have any questions regarding stock levels or delivery, please get in touch. This is due to massive postage costs and problems regarding returns. Please note we do NOT ship telescopes or heavy items outside of the UK. Please get in touch with us for any postage costs. This all depends on the size and weight of the items.

It is at our discretion what we ship outside of the UK. Please note International customers will need to contact us for a shipping price prior to ordering via the website. If the stock is not at the shop, we won't be able to ship on any of the timed services. Also, please remember to check that the stock is here at the shop before placing orders. Also, orders using the Saturday and Sunday services must be placed before 1pm the previous working day. Please note that if you are wanting to take advantage of our Saturday and Sunday timed services or next day pre 12 or pre 10:30 services, you MUST check that the stock is here at the shop before placing orders. Smaller items can still go 1st class via Royal Mail. If you live in the Scottish Highlands/Islands, Channel Islands or Northern Ireland, then a shipping surchage will apply. The delivery costs for courier next day are for mainland UK only. To double check the stock levels at the shop, please contact us on 01909774369 or delivery times for most items is 1 - 2 days but again, please double check stock levels on important orders before placing an order via the website. Some items that are showing as in stock are in stock at our holding warehouses, not at the shop. Eclipse chasers travel hours to remote locations to observe solar eclipses. However even for people, who are perfectly aware of its astronomical explanation, solar eclipses are something special. Because of its elliptical path, the Moon might be too far to block the Sun entirely, leading only to partial or annular eclipse.Įven though eclipses are a natural phenomenon, its infrequence often led people to attribute them to supernatural causes. Due to this, the Moon's umbra usually misses the Earth.Įven when the Moon's orbit cross Earth's ecliptic plane, the Moon is not always close enough to the Earth. The Moon's orbit is tilted at over 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Only at new moon, the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth, an alignment referred to as syzygy. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth. And even then, with a speed of the Moon's shadow of over 1700 km/h, they only last up to 7 minutes and 30 seconds. But on a given place on Earth, they only occur once every 360 to 410 years. Total solar eclipses occur somewhere on Earth on average every 18 months.
