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Taking it easy...
May. 20th, 2012 04:53 pmIt's Sunday, so I decided to quit after 3,200 target words of work. Some 7,000 words or so are left on the plate. Deadlines are... not critical.
After playing around with Xavier Jubier's nifty interactive map of today's annular eclipse (the NASA site, which apparently has the same map, was apparently swamped, and I gave up trying to get to it after a half-dozen failed attempts), I came to the conclusion that heading off to Farmington—which is within the zone where the the entire circle of the moon will be visible against the backdrop of the sun—really isn't going to improve the view we're going to get (cloud cover permitting) here in Pagosa, at least not so much as to be worth burning a half a tank of gas (and spending 4 hours on the road, besides whatever time we spend watching the eclipse).
Here's the local skinny on the eclipse:
Besides hoping the clouds don't get in the way too much, I do hope we're high enough to see the sun at maximum eclipse, when it's a mere 6.7° above the horizon.
Cheers...
After playing around with Xavier Jubier's nifty interactive map of today's annular eclipse (the NASA site, which apparently has the same map, was apparently swamped, and I gave up trying to get to it after a half-dozen failed attempts), I came to the conclusion that heading off to Farmington—which is within the zone where the the entire circle of the moon will be visible against the backdrop of the sun—really isn't going to improve the view we're going to get (cloud cover permitting) here in Pagosa, at least not so much as to be worth burning a half a tank of gas (and spending 4 hours on the road, besides whatever time we spend watching the eclipse).
Here's the local skinny on the eclipse:
Besides hoping the clouds don't get in the way too much, I do hope we're high enough to see the sun at maximum eclipse, when it's a mere 6.7° above the horizon.
Cheers...
