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Baggertransport Absetzer 756

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Baggertransport – Late Night Show

Am Samstagabend war der populäre Höhepunkt des Baggertransports Absetzer 756 mit seinem Bandschleifenwagen 946 die Überquerung der A61. Damit sind bis zur Einfahrt in den Tagebau Hambach voraussichtlich am Mittwoch nur noch einige “kleinere” Hindernisse der 2. Etappe zu bewältigen.

Bereits im Juni haben die Ungetüme als letzte Großgeräte den ehemaligen Tagebau Bergheim verlassen, so schnell wird es einen dieser spektakulären Transporte also erstmal nicht mehr geben. Entsprechend gut besucht war die Autobahnüberquerung, laut Zeitungsberichten über 1000 Schaulustige, da der Besucherparkplatz aber Platz für 2000 Fahrzeuge bot und ziemlich voll war, schätze ich die Zahl auf eher 4000 Besucher.

Zeitungsberichte:

  • ksta.de: Riesen den Weg geebnet
  • ksta.de: Absetzer setzt über
  • ksta.de: Absetzer wieder unterwegs
  • ksta.de: Ein Riese auf Reisen

Aktuelles auf der RWE-Seite zum Absetzertransport.

More Impressions from Jinshan

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Total Solar Eclipse 22 Jul 2009 - Engine Room - Photo: Silivia Otto
Total Solar Eclipse 22 Jul 2009 – Engine Room – Photo: Silivia Otto
Total Solar Eclipse 22 Jul 2009 - Rain Strikes - Photo: Jan Sundström
Total Solar Eclipse 22 Jul 2009 – Rain Strikes – Photo: Jan Sundström
Total Solar Eclipse 22 Jul 2009 - Escaping the Rain - Photo: Jan Sundström
Total Solar Eclipse 22 Jul 2009 – Escaping the Rain – Photo: Jan Sundström

A few more impressions from the eclipse chasers at Ramada Plaza Sino-Bay Hotel, Jinshan, China. Not only that we were clouded out during totality, there was also ample supply of drenching rain afterwards. ;-) Thanks to Silvia Otto and Jan Sundström for the images.

[Unfortunately, there’s no higher resolution version of the images.]

Website Update

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Just updated the website to WordPress 2.8.4 and K2 1.0-RC8, which required redoing various changes and some new stylesheet stuff, but hopefully everything should work as before.

Clouded Out

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Total Solar Eclipse 22 Jul 2009 – Clouded Partially Eclipsed Sun

At the end, it didn’t work out. We were only partially sucessful, so to speak. Just a few glimpses of the sun thru the clouds between 1st and 2nd contact, and even heavy rain after 3rd contact. The deep darkness was impressing, nevertheless.

A complete travel report (German only) can be found here..

T – 9d 12h

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Some useful resources for the upcoming total solar eclipse 22 July 2009, the longest one during the 21st century, just a bit short of 6 mins on the east coast of China.

T – 10d 09h

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18:10 – 18:25 – 18:44 – 19:05

Only a few days left, the next total solar eclipse on July 22nd is just around the corner. We’ll be heading to a location south of Shanghai.

So this is the perfect time to have a look back at the total solar eclipse of August 1st, 2008.

Resources:

[Update] For the more scientific stuff, have a look at