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Actually, I nearly missed it myself :-)
I came downstairs, put the kettle on, started drawing some plans for a 56-hole calendar[*] for the front lawn, coloured in the appropriate holes for where the Sun, Moon and nodes are right now and thought vaguely to myself "hmmm - there's an eclipse today - wonder if we'll get a partial?".
So I fired up Starry Night, it popped up an alert about the eclipse and when I checked the time of first contact it was in 5 minutes!
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simon
* the reason I couldn't get to sleep last night is that I was working out the calendar calculations in my head - mental arithmetic usually works in sending me to sleep, but this time it didn't. You try adding 6 then 7 days in repeated turn starting from June 21 in your head 56 times while multiplying six and three sevenths by 18 and 19 *and* remember why you started!
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