Total Solar Eclipse success from Turkey!

Did you notice the horse riding down the beach just before totality? I'll bet he was spooked!

China in 2008 anyone?

Just been looking at the path and the cities on it. China isnt great for this unfortunately. There are some cities near the path, and some really great places to visit within a couple of hundred kilometers from places like Xi'an. However the eclipse is near sunset there and we would need not only clear skies, but clear horizon skies to see the eclipse at 10 degrees or so. Further west there are smaller cities, which will be harder to get to.

Novosibirsk looks like the easy option for 2008. Perhaps the Chinese books should be put away until Shanghai in 2009.


Cheers,
~Al

Well I had no idea of the detail of it. I just read in my astrophotography book (right after the eclipse cause I wanted to know when the next one was ) that the next one goes through Northern Canada, China, Russia etc and then I heard someone say China would be the best place. I really have no idea. But I'll be damned if I'm waiting 11 years for the next "easily accessible" one!

here here, I think a trip to Russia is looking very likely in 2008.
The problem is accomodation, that city is not exactly a holiday resort.

here here, I think a trip to Russia is looking very likely in 2008.
The problem is accomodation, that city is not exactly a holiday resort.

What problem?!?! Bing a tent!

here here, I think a trip to Russia is looking very likely in 2008.
The problem is accomodation, that city is not exactly a holiday resort.

There seems to be only a handful of bigish hotels there all-hotels.ru/index.en.html?r=11070

There isnt much else around. Other cities have much smaller populations and not much in the way of hotels.

The biggest city near the line is Xi'an. It does have a tourist industry and big name hotels (sheraton and Hyatt).

Wheres the best place to check weather stats?

Did you notice the horse riding down the beach just before totality? I'll bet he was spooked!

Albert,

Great shot! Very clear and great range of brightness captured without much glare. I must get a digital SLR someday, or at least something with a bigger imaging chip. When you zoom into the original, do the speckles on the waves look like little crecent suns, diffraction spikes, pixel squares or the shape of your camera's iris?

P.S. The iris on some camcorders is shaped like a flattened diamond, so in the 1980s and 1990s, many U.F.O.s were also shaped like that