Local definition of being focused on work: totally forgot about the solar eclipse

[dianeduane]

Sheesh. Unusual for me. But here’s the info.  (The path of totality has also been Google Mapped.)

Stockholm will only be getting a partial — I estimate 35–40%-ish coverage from the diagram — but that’s still more than I’d have seen at home in Ireland. What great timing!

Here’s a magic phrase, though:

The path of totality crosses the Great Wall of China before sunset.

OMG SOMEBODY GET PICTUREZ!!

 

Tags: eclipse, August+1, 2008, Stockholm, midnight+sun, China, Great+Wall, partial, wow

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I will be VERY surprised if National Geographic etc. aren't there.

[drglam]

Wow!

I can't help you with that, but one of my housemates is hanging with yak herders in Mongolia for the eclipse, and he'll almost certainly have some interesting photos.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the information, I didn't know about it. London will be around 8:30 to 10:15 partial, assuming we see it at all.

[pendlemac.livejournal.com]

One tiny point, the website times are UT which is near enough GMT ( UT and GMT drift apart and eventually GMT gets a leap second ). Unfortunatly this wont change the weather so at 10:15, which is the point of maximum eclipse, you can go out and watch the clouds! :-)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I missed the UT part. So it will start at 09:30 BST...

[meryddian.livejournal.com]

I find it utterly amazing that we can predict eclipses for some 30-ish years out with such precision, but the weathermen can barely tell us what the weather's going to do this afternoon. :-)

[meryddian.livejournal.com]

ps. I know you have a Facebook link so I was looking to add as 'Fan of...' but you only seem to have 'add as friend' available? (I just thought it'd be bit presumptuous of me to 'add as friend' when I am a fan and don't know you personally! :-))

[dduane.livejournal.com]

:) "Friending" is fine. I don't F-lock any entries. Besides, I've got like eleven hundred friends... one more won't hurt. ;)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Welcome to chaos.

(Life's a lot easier when predicting a handful of objects interacting using only gravity compared to predicting trillions of bits of air interacting with a number of different forces.)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Svalbard looks like it's almost under totality, and it's relatively close for us (Stansted/Tromso/Longyearbyen). Shame it's not really on this year, though it's my ambition to visit Longyearbyen one day.

One of the Arctic cruising companies is placing its ship off the north coast of Svalbard for the sight.

[raie.livejournal.com]

The sun's shadow invades china, china declares war on the sun, news at 11.

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

compilerbitch is part of the nasa team working in the artic. assuming the weather works out she should be getting some seriously good pictures especially as she is armed with a medium format camera with a betterlight digital back and a tool that lets her produce 360 panaromas. Were talking almost gigapixel shots.
fingers crossed its not cloudy!!!

[hrrunka]

APOD has come up with this: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080831.html