Un-eclipsed...
Aug. 1st, 2008 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhich describes us here in Baikonur, some 1000 or so miles from the track of today's total solar eclipse, as it passes over (among other places) Novosibirsk and Barnaul, and shown in the animation below:
According to other data I've been able to dig up on the Internet - with difficulty because (a) there are other things to do and (b) data transfer rates are glacially slow - the time of greatest eclipse here will be at about 4:50 pm local time (which just happens to be when my assigned work time is over today).
At that time, from our vantage point, about 70% of the sun's disk will be covered. If memory serves, that will exceed the almost 60% coverage we experienced in Pagosa Springs during the total eclipse of July 11, 1991.
Stay tuned for more details.
Cheers...
According to other data I've been able to dig up on the Internet - with difficulty because (a) there are other things to do and (b) data transfer rates are glacially slow - the time of greatest eclipse here will be at about 4:50 pm local time (which just happens to be when my assigned work time is over today).
At that time, from our vantage point, about 70% of the sun's disk will be covered. If memory serves, that will exceed the almost 60% coverage we experienced in Pagosa Springs during the total eclipse of July 11, 1991.
Stay tuned for more details.
Cheers...
