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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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2009, CN, astrofotografie, astronomie, astronomy, astrophotography, chemical district, china, china2009, clouds, eclipse, ereignisse, events, finsternis, himmel, industrial district, jinshan, jīnshān qū, partial, partiell, ramada plaza sino-bay hotel, reise, shanghai, shanghai chemical industry park, sino-bay hotel shanghai, sky, solar eclipse, solar-eclipse-2009-jul-22, sonnenfinsternis, travel, wolken, world, zhongguo, 上海, 中国, 中國, 金山区
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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2008, CN, astrofotografie, astronomie, astronomy, astrophotography, badanjilin sand desert, badanjilin sandwüste, china, china2008, desert, eclipse, eclipse city camp, ereignisse, events, finsternis, gansu, jinta, jinta xian, partial, partiell, reise, solar eclipse, solar-eclipse-2008-08-01, solar-eclipse-2008-aug-01, sonnenfinsternis, travel, world, wüste, zhongguo, 中国, 中國, 甘肃, 金塔县
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