Yep! ________________________________ From: Josephine Grahn <jograhn@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Where were you 22 years ago today I want a "like" button for this posting! But, seriously, this eclipse will be an order of magnitude more "special" to the public than the annular eclipse we saw last Spring. The roads will be jammed with people trying to head to Idaho and Wyoming for the eclipse. Members of this group may want to take a careful look at the plans Lowell Lyon and the ALCON group are making for a Wyoming meeting, with plans to stay a few extra days and see the eclipse. If that is not feasible, you may certainly want to plan on being "onsite" a day ahead of time, so that you are not stuck in traffic, trying to get to your center line viewing spot on time. It's just too incredible an event to risk a traffic jam miss. If SLAS goes with a bus, make sure it leaves with plenty of time to handle the unexpected..... On Jul 11, 2013, at 10:18 PM, jcarman6@q.com wrote:
If memory serves, the chartering of the 737 was on behalf of the Hansen Planetarium and not SLAS. A small group of SLAS members who availed themselves of the opportunity were graciously rewarded with a mouth dropping event (my first eclipse). They were a minority on a flight that was SRO. To this day I remember seeing the moon's shadow race toward those gathered at the airport and it swept my eyes skyward just in time to see some beads and a diamond ring . I also recall that after a mere 6 minutes and 35 seconds Patrick walked up to me and said "Well, what do you think?" He may not remember, but I just stood there with a silly grin on my face. He should have marked the moment in his journal, as it is probably one of the most rarest of occasions when I was absolutely speechless . _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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