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I've taken a quite nice video - soon in youtube;)
It was really an amazing experience for me!
Hope to see you all again next year July 22nd!
I'll come back to post the link of the video.
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Yiannis
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Here is my "shot"
Enjoy

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It must have taken alot of time to mix the audio and video.
It's great that the sound of the experience is recorded also.
Thanks for posting it up here.
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It must have taken alot of time to mix the audio and video.
It's great that the sound of the experience is recorded also.
Michael,
that was the easiest thing.
In macintosh the main program for editing videos "imovie"
you can add extra music as background for several clips
and you adjust for every clip the loudness level of the original
sound of the clip or the song you've chosen for background

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YES!
I will be 'eclipsed' next year!!
Thanks so much for posting this up.
It gave me chills to see the eclipse like this once again.
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GREEKS!
YE ARE ON THE NEWS!!!
Check this out!
(at around 2:40sec we see you lot in the square, next to Lennin, maybe on the Wednesday?
Funny!
(at least if ye got abducted by those 2 guys we would
have had evidence of their faces!)

There are some cool eclipse vids on Utube.
This one from Novo is cool;
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The vid was amazing Yiannis and the music was perfect
Do svidaniya! Russia
Ni hao! China

6 minutes of Totality next year...OMG!!

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it appears that your first link is a copy of the second link,
That video is the way I'm record my next eclipse, which ever eclipse it end up been, it was just amazing, it show the surroundings very well.
Here is a unique video from a plane, note the shadow, real cool !!
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They put the entire article + 4 images onto page 4 of the weekend paper, it makes up most of the page.
www.limerickleader.ie/features/Solar-so-good.4388052.jp
Frank and Simon , Thanks for editing it and making corrections as needed. This is good publicity for the club.

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AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME article!The limerick leader asked us to do up an article for them about the eclipse,
They put the entire article + 4 images onto page 4 of the weekend paper, it makes up most of the page.
www.limerickleader.ie/features/Solar-so-good.4388052.jp
Frank and Simon , Thanks for editing it and making corrections as needed. This is good publicity for the club.![]()
Two minor comments .... are solar eclipses, on average, not around every 18 months or so and in contrast to the two per year cited in the article .... and there is a small typo with "Artic" ....
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I checked further and the average of 18 months is in relation to total solar eclipses. As for solar eclipses in general (annular, hybrid, total), we do indeed have at least two such opportunities annually.
As an aside, 2011 will be characterized with four partial eclipses as per SkyMap Pro V8. Cool!
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I'm not going to argue over 18 months or 1 year, its something I had in my head and didn't look it up in detail, I'll let it to a questioning reader of the paper to come back to us on that one. As for typos, we try and get them all but some do get through.
We wrote it in the same style as our shorter weekly article so its pitched so that anyone can read it.
If people come into the meeting next month saying they want to go to an eclispe next year, then its has done its job.

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The article is a very pleasant read and certainly describes well all aspects of the experience (from getting there, the incessant worries about the weather and finally the big event itself).
Now, if the article does not inspire others to join you, I then give up.
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I was wondering what would the weather have been like had the eclipse been 6 months later in mid winter instead,
Current temperature in Novosibirsk is -26c with a windchill of a -30c


www.wunderground.com/global/stations/29634.html
No standing around is shirts concerning ourselves about sunburn for sure !!
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That'd be awesome!
Us Orish would take that in out stride... but..
Imagine the the Greeks !!
Poor mollys would have died!
Remember Parnon?
'Make sure to wear lots of layers..It's cold up there!'
I was in shorts for most of it!
Balmy to say the least!
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We have a national emergency whenever the temperature falls below +10d C.Imagine the the Greeks !!
Poor mollys would have died!
Remember Parnon?
'Make sure to wear lots of layers..It's cold up there!'
I was in shorts for most of it!
Balmy to say the least!
No money in the world would make me visit a place with -26d C ...
Anthony.
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Essential eclipse equipment list,
"scope, camera, tripod, snow shovel"

Imagine totality in a snow white environment, it would have been cool, very very cool.!

We could have gone ice skating in the lake afterwards.
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We could have gone ice skating in the lake afterwards.
As opposed to playing 'dodge the 18 wheeler' on the road of death back into Novosibirsk!

I think I'd prefer the -30 degrees!!!
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