Cappadocia it was, indeed. Just north of Nevşehir - I'll send you a Google
placemarker.
While we were there we passed a Turkist F-16 base close to Ankara - were you
not posted to Incirlik at some stage?
I have looked closer at the 2008 track, and it looks like the oil welss of
Western Siberia are the place to be. Maximum eclipse is between Salekhard
and Novyy Urengoy, names which will be unknown to anyone ouyside the oil
business, I fear.
The photos are looking promising :-)
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: 06 April 2006 21:15
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Solar eclipse photo advice
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.
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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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