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Total Solar Eclipse Today
by Simon at 09:28 01/08/08 (Blogs::Simon)
First contact (from Stonehenge) in about 5 minutes.

Unfortunately, we only get a partial eclipse.

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Total Solar Eclipse Today Simon - 09:28 01/08/08
Re: Total Solar Eclipse Today - pics Simon - 12:09 01/08/08

... and this one is from the BBC website (it's an AP pic):

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse Today - pics Bruce Ure - 13:44 01/08/08
Excellent pics Simon. Wish I'd been on the ball enough to have seen it.

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse Today - pics Simon - 14:29 01/08/08
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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* 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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Re: Total Solar Eclipse Today David Crowson - 01:38 03/08/08
bugger missed it, but at least I'm in time to watch the live web stream (20 mins to go) of the launch of Falcon 1

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Re: Total Solar Eclipse Today David Crowson - 16:35 03/08/08
except that didn't go too well
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Re: Total Solar Eclipse Today Simon - 17:16 03/08/08
Ooh - nasty :-(
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Re: Total Solar Eclipse Today David Crowson - 09:17 04/08/08
additional:

the ashes of over 200 people were also on board, including a pair of rather well known astronauts, one actual, one fictional. They were Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury 7, and "Scotty" himself, James Doohan.

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