Friday, July 9, 2010

Total Solar eclipse of July 11, 2010

Larry Klaes passed this information about viewing the upcoming Solar eclipse on July 11.
- LRK -

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From: Thilina Heenatigala <thilina_atn@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:47:58
To: <thilina.heenatigala@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Faces from Earth] Watch Live - Total Solar Eclipse of July 11,  2010

Greetings,

A spectacular total solar eclipse will occur on July 11, 2010 over the ancient statues of Easter Island, where those lucky enough to have made it to the Pacific will witness the last total eclipse to occur until November 2012.

But some of the Eclipse Chasers/Groups are taking the extra effort to web-stream the Eclipse online for the rest of the world to watch!

I have compiled a list of live web-streams, please share it with your friends and other groups. It's an opportunity not to be missed.

http://bit.ly/livesolareclipse

Cheers!

Thilina Heenatigala

General Secretary
Sri Lanka Astronomical Association
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http://www.faces-from-earth.net/

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Sky and Telescope has an informtive article about the July 11, 2010 Solar Eclipse.
Go to the website to see a global image of the track.
- LRK -

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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/83500827.html

An Exotic Solar Eclipse
February 3, 2010
by Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson

The third total eclipse of the Sun in three years is coming up on July 11th, when the long, thin finger of the Moon’s shadow will again draw its tip across Earth’s surface.

But unlike the spectacles in 2007 and 2008, which offered many possibilities for land-based viewing, the 6,800-mile (11,000-km) path of this eclipse is confined almost exclusively to the South Pacific Ocean. When greatest eclipse occurs, at 19:33:31 Universal Time (3:33:31 p.m. EDT), the duration on the central line is 5 minutes 20 seconds — but at a point hundreds of miles from any land.

Totality begins at sunrise almost 1,200 miles (2,000 km) northeast of New Zealand, at 18:15 UT. Five minutes later the Moon’s shadow makes the first of its very few appearances on terra firma. The island of Mangaia is a mountainous volcanic remnant in the Cook Islands just south of the eclipse path’s central line. The duration of totality here is 3 minutes 18 seconds, with the Sun 14° above the horizon.

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Thanks for looking up with me.
- LRK -

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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