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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
On Aug 25, 10:21 am, "Howard Lester" wrote:
"Esmail" wrote Mike Simmons and I were planning to meet in east/southeastern Wyoming where I think it'll be the best chances for clear sky at 10:30 AM. And I suppose *my* invitation to that meeting got lost in the mail??? You mean Mike never invited you??? That BUM! ;-) We planned this because it turned out we were both fairly close to each other observing the 1979 eclipse in Washington. Of course we didn't know of each other then. The 1979 eclipse was heavily clouded out here in Vancouver. It was a deep partial eclipse here, and it got really dark: the street lights came on. But that was about it. There have been some partial eclipses since then (most recently in 2002), but it's just not the same. The next total eclipse here is, according to Fred Espenak's web site, 2 August 2771. I doubt I'll see it. :-) I already have 21 August 2017 blocked off in my calendar at work (probably eastern Oregon), though I'm sure I'll see a solar eclipse somwhere else in the interim. When I got back from Turkey last year (my first total eclipse), I promptly ordered a copy of Meeus's book and have done lots of number crunching. I've drawn some pretty pictures with the mapping software I use at work. Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Non sequitur. Your ACKs are Grid: CN89mg uncoordinated." ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Nomad the Network Engineer |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
"Bill Becker" wrote in message
... "Howard Lester" wrote in message ... "Bill Becker" wrote It looks like totality runs right through Casper Wyoming. :^) Who else could get lucky barring cloud cover? You're just aware of that now? :-) Yeah, even though my astro interest is at an ebb, I still check out SAA and SpaceWeather.com where I found out aboot it. BILL!!! How can you SAY that??? MY interest comes and goes a LITTLE bit, but never VERY far... I'm not only still here, I visit the group several times a DAY!!! Don't say as much as I used to (probably a GOOD thing), but I'm here, if, and when, I can help... But I DO have a support group, and it's headed by Howard and Sasquatch Lester... Well, the 'squatch is probably better known on rec.birds, but still, were it not for them... Welcome back! Another lost soul back from the dead! Thanks for the welcome but I'm pretty much a lurker now. At least until the Astro bug bites me on the ass yet again. ;^) Well, DAMMIT!!! DELURK your BUTT!!! Mike Simmons and I were planning to meet in east/southeastern Wyoming where I think it'll be the best chances for clear sky at 10:30 AM. I'd like to be a part of that venture... ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
"laura halliday" wrote
I already have 21 August 2017 blocked off in my calendar at work (probably eastern Oregon), though I'm sure I'll see a solar eclipse somwhere else in the interim. Most places on the lee side of a mountain range like the Cascades should have good chances, especially since it will be mid-morning before clouds have a chance to build up. On June 8, 1918 a famous mid-Saturday afternoon eclipse occurred over Baker, OR, beautifully painted by Howard Russell Butler*, and written about extensively in Mitchell's Eclipses of the Sun. That book has to be the best of all when it comes to comprehensive descriptions of eclipse adventures. * I did a search on him and came up with this excerpt: "At the age of sixty-two, painter Howard Russell Butler was invited to join a U.S. Naval Observatory expedition to Oregon to chronicle the solar eclipse of June 8, 1918. "As a portrait painter," he wrote in Natural History ("Painting Eclipses and Lunar Landscapes," July-August 1926), "I generally asked for ten sittings of two hours each. But all the time they would allow me on this occasion was 112 1/10 seconds." His finished painting eventually graced the Hayden Planetarium's rotunda." |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
Howard Lester wrote:
"David Nakamoto" wrote Ahem ! Are we going to remember all of this in 10 YEARS??!!! (^_^) But I'm planning to be somewhere in that region at that time, so perhaps we'll run into one another. (^_^) David, it'd be the ultimate s.a.a. gathering. The idea of a national s.a.a. gathering was brought up years ago... remember? Howard Ahem ! Given some of the "personalities" that inhabit this group, is that a good idea ?! (^_^) --- Dave |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
"Marty" wrote in message ... Thanks for the welcome but I'm pretty much a lurker now. At least until the Astro bug bites me on the ass yet again. ;^) Well it IS nice hearing from you again Bill! Marty Hehe, thanks. Your gravity keeps on pulling me back into the fold. ;^) ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
"Jan Owen" wrote in message ... "Bill Becker" wrote in message ... "Howard Lester" wrote in message ... "Bill Becker" wrote It looks like totality runs right through Casper Wyoming. :^) Who else could get lucky barring cloud cover? You're just aware of that now? :-) Yeah, even though my astro interest is at an ebb, I still check out SAA and SpaceWeather.com where I found out aboot it. BILL!!! How can you SAY that??? MY interest comes and goes a LITTLE bit, but never VERY far... I'm not only still here, I visit the group several times a DAY!!! Don't say as much as I used to (probably a GOOD thing), but I'm here, if, and when, I can help... But I DO have a support group, and it's headed by Howard and Sasquatch Lester... Well, the 'squatch is probably better known on rec.birds, but still, were it not for them... Welcome back! Another lost soul back from the dead! Thanks for the welcome but I'm pretty much a lurker now. At least until the Astro bug bites me on the ass yet again. ;^) Well, DAMMIT!!! DELURK your BUTT!!! SIR, YES SIR! ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
"David Nakamoto" wrote
David, it'd be the ultimate s.a.a. gathering. The idea of a national s.a.a. gathering was brought up years ago... remember? Howard Ahem ! Given some of the "personalities" that inhabit this group, is that a good idea ?! (^_^) --- Dave Well, I did follow that up with the intimation that, at such a gathering, we'd have the opportunity to permanently remove some offensive personalities! We'd just sacrifice them in order to bring back the sun.... ;-) |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
Howard was saying
Well, I did follow that up with the intimation that, at such a gathering, we'd have the opportunity to permanently remove some offensive personalities! We'd just sacrifice them in order to bring back the sun.... And I'd be happy to preside over the festivities of the sacrifice! Marty |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
Howard Lester wrote:
"Esmail" wrote Mike Simmons and I were planning to meet in east/southeastern Wyoming where I think it'll be the best chances for clear sky at 10:30 AM. And I suppose *my* invitation to that meeting got lost in the mail??? You mean Mike never invited you??? That BUM! ;-) ah .. it's Mike's fault!! .. good to know! We planned this because it turned out we were both fairly close to each other observing the 1979 eclipse in Washington. Of course we didn't know of each other then. |
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Solar eclipse of Aug 21st 2017
Howard Lester wrote:
"David Nakamoto" wrote David, it'd be the ultimate s.a.a. gathering. The idea of a national s.a.a. gathering was brought up years ago... remember? Howard Ahem ! Given some of the "personalities" that inhabit this group, is that a good idea ?! (^_^) --- Dave Well, I did follow that up with the intimation that, at such a gathering, we'd have the opportunity to permanently remove some offensive personalities! We'd just sacrifice them in order to bring back the sun.... Ah .. leave it to Howard to come up with creative problem solution. In that case perhaps Shawn and Nancy could turn up too. |
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