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Subject: [OM] Re: Solar eclipse photo advice
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 21:14:52 +0100
I am very envious, Piers.  Especially as  I think I have visited near  
there.  I was in Cappadocia in 2000 during the Feast of Sacrifice.

Thanks for the tip for 2008.  I look forward to the photos.

Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
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On 6 Apr 2006, at 19:36, Piers Hemy wrote:

> In this case, as I now know, Chuck (and Charlie in his post) really  
> did mean
> "such as will engender reverential fear or wonder" for thus it was  
> last
> week.  As I mentioned originally, I had in mind the chance of cloud  
> cover -
> location was Haçibektaş in central Anatolia, where NASA judged the
> probability of clear skies to be only 40% - but as it turned out,  
> we had
> clear skies for the full duration of the eclipse.  The advent was  
> pretty
> impressive, for sure, to see the moon progressively eating into the  
> solar
> disk; to see the character of the light change from midday sun to  
> 6500K
> twilight; to see the multiple eclipses in the shade of the trees.  But
> nothing, no NOTHING, not even the clear and accurate descriptions  
> here,
> could have prepared us for the instant of totality (which extended  
> for the
> quickest 3+ minutes I have ever experienced).  I don't propose to  
> even try
> to better what has already been said, I will just recommend that  
> you keep 1
> Aug 2008 free, because you deserve to be travelling in the run up  
> to that
> day.  Whether Arctic Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, Siberia, Mongolia  
> or China
> just see it!

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