Current events/Eclipses

Revision as of 16:30, 22 August 2017

2010: Easter island!; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2010Jul11Tgoogle.html; Did not get to attend. Spend any possible funds on moving to Brisbane (some 14 months earlier) instead
2012: 14 november - 5-8am in Cairns, QLD; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2012Nov13Tgoogle.html; Saw it on the beach. Mostly cloudy, but they parted for a proper view within the window of totality! =D
2017: Through the USA, coast to coast.; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017

past above, future below

2019: Buenos Aires gets skimmed right on sunset.; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2019Jul02Tgoogle.html
2024: Mexico, up through Dallas, then Niagra Falls; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2024Apr08Tgoogle.html
2026: North spain at Sunset (Madrid, you just barely miss out); http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2026Aug12Tgoogle.html
2027: Gibralter Straight, the Nile (just north of Aswan Dam) and also Mecca around midday; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2027Aug02Tgoogle.html

2028: Bourke, Nyngan, Dubbo, then bullseye on Sydney at 2pm; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2028Jul22Tgoogle.html
2030: including Wilpena Pound at sunset; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2030Nov25Tgoogle.html
2037: Geraldton, up to Uluru, then down to South Brisbane/Byron Bay in the early afternoon; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2037Jul13Tgoogle.html
2038: Whyalla, NSW/VIC border in the early morning; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2038Dec26Tgoogle.html

2035 (annular), 2037, 2038 (as above for Australia) are also good for NewZealand...: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2035Mar09Agoogle.html
2035 Beijing, North Korea, (almost) Tokyo: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2035Sep02Tgoogle.html
2042: Annular eclipse in Australia (through NT (including Elliott) down through Canberra (Lake George!?); http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2042Oct14Agoogle.html
2045: Florida (Cape Canaveral!), The Bahamas, Haiti; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2045Aug12Tgoogle.html
2053: Straights of Gibraltar, just outside Mecca; http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2051/SE2053Sep12Tgoogle.html

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 :http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2012Nov13Tgoogle.html
 :Saw it on the beach. Mostly cloudy, but they parted for a proper view within the window of totality! =D
+;2017:Through the USA, coast to coast.
+: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html
+: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017
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 past above, future below
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-;2017:Through north america - the point of maximum eclipse is just up the road from Nashville, so I expect some kind of awesome music festival!
-: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html
 ;2019:Buenos Aires gets skimmed right on sunset.
 :http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2019Jul02Tgoogle.html