Solar Eclipse, China, NASA TV. Friday 1st August 2008.

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<p><strong><font size="2">There is live NASA TV coverage of the Total Solar eclipse in Hunan Province, China, on NASA TV, tomorrow, Friday 1st August 2008 @ 3:00 AM - 5:10 AM PDT, 6:00 AM - 8:10 AM EDT.&nbsp; 11:00 AM / 1:30 PM CET&nbsp;(BST).</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="3" color="#0000ff"><strong><font size="3" color="#0000ff">Friday 1st August 2008, NASA TV in China, Total Solar Eclipse.</font></strong></font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">Just to mention, the above link also works for today's Media Press Conference update&nbsp;covering the Mars Phoenix Lander.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">I hope this is being covered in Northern Greenland? I was hoping to be there myself, but in the end, could not afford it.&nbsp;</font></strong></p><p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Andrew Brown.</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

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<p><strong><font size="2">Wow, that was pretty amazing.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">Liked the prominence @ the 4'o clock position & a fairly typical Solar Minimum Corona, very symetrical. </font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">There was a fair bit of cumulus cloud around, but got a nice view of totality.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">Andrew Brown.</font></strong></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

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Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Wow, that was pretty amazing.Liked the prominence @ the 4'o clock position & a fairly typical Solar Minimum Corona, very symetrical. There was a fair bit of cumulus cloud around, but got a nice view of totality.Andrew Brown. <br />Posted by 3488</DIV><br /><br />Partial solar eclipce was visible from where I live, but unfortunately I do not currently have any equipment to view the Sun with, so I had to let the opportunity pass. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Partial solar eclipce was visible from where I live, but unfortunately I do not currently have any equipment to view the Sun with, so I had to let the opportunity pass. <br /> Posted by Philotas</font></DIV></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">F</font></strong><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">rom here in Ashford, Kent, UK, I did a projection of the sun with binoculars, through an open window work & showed my colleagues. A nice chunk was taken out of the Sun. Such small partials like that really do not interwest me too much, but sharing it with colleagues was interesting though.</font><br /></strong></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><font color="#000000"><strong><font size="2">Nice article here.</font></strong></font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000080"><strong>Solar eclipse @ 11,000 metres / 36,000' over the arctic.&nbsp;</strong></font></p><p><strong><font size="2">Because the atmosphere is so thin at that altitude, I expect the clarity was far superior to anything from ground level.&nbsp;</font></strong></p><p><font size="3" color="#000080"><strong>Totality from 11 KM above sea level. </strong></font><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/0/5/101e4e19-d2c9-4eb8-95f7-17fc21b0302a.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br />&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

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<p><strong><font size="2">How's these?</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">Camel & Man silhouetted against eclipse. Gansu China.</font></strong><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/13/1/bda5d05a-af3b-4002-a17d-6ab667471a71.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br />&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><strong>Jiayuguang, Gansu, China.</strong></font><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/9/2/793295ed-5062-4aa8-82c0-fe008d694cee.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br />&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>