Yes, I thought it was to early for the annular that was in New Mexico, I forget the year. The eclipse you are talking about some went to Hawaii and where their hotel was was clear and where they drove to was cloudy.
Some SLAS members went to Las Cruses for the annular and a certain Desert News reporter did a story. We had the SLAS H-alpha with us and had good viewing up to max eclipse. It was a total eclipse. If memory serves me correctly, a buch of SLAS
members got together and went to Cabo San Lucas (or La Paz or somewhere in Baja California Sur) and got a decent view of the event. After spending the next two 12-hour days traveling back to Salt Lake, we were further chagrined when the local news showed pictures of how it looked from El Paso, Texas. All we had to do was travel another 2 hours to the south-west and we would have seen it!
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From: erikhansen@thebluezone.net <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy funnies To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 10:48 AM
Was that an annular? Anyway clouded out eclipses are not funny at all.
That last link is particularly relevant to my experience of chasing an
eclipse back in May of 1994. We took our junior high daughter out of school and drove 12 hours a day, to minimize how much school she'd be missing, to Roswell, New Mexico to see a total eclipse. All we saw was rain. In fact, the rain was so heavy that the highway leading into town was flooded and needed a highway patrol escort. --- On Sun, 7/25/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy funnies To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 1:42 AM For those who may not have seen these in the paper recently: http://comics.com/Peanuts/2010-7-12 http://comics.com/Peanuts/2010-7-13 http://comics.com/Peanuts/2010-7-14 http://comics.com/Peanuts/2010-7-15 http://comics.com/Peanuts/2010-7-16 http://comics.com/Peanuts/2010-7-17 http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20100724&name=Pardon_My... patrick :) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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