I am very envious, Piers. Especially as I think I have visited near
there. I was in Cappadocia in 2000 during the Feast of Sacrifice.
Thanks for the tip for 2008. I look forward to the photos.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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www.threeshoes.co.uk
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On 6 Apr 2006, at 19:36, Piers Hemy wrote:
> In this case, as I now know, Chuck (and Charlie in his post) really
> did mean
> "such as will engender reverential fear or wonder" for thus it was
> last
> week. As I mentioned originally, I had in mind the chance of cloud
> cover -
> location was Haçibektaş in central Anatolia, where NASA judged the
> probability of clear skies to be only 40% - but as it turned out,
> we had
> clear skies for the full duration of the eclipse. The advent was
> pretty
> impressive, for sure, to see the moon progressively eating into the
> solar
> disk; to see the character of the light change from midday sun to
> 6500K
> twilight; to see the multiple eclipses in the shade of the trees. But
> nothing, no NOTHING, not even the clear and accurate descriptions
> here,
> could have prepared us for the instant of totality (which extended
> for the
> quickest 3+ minutes I have ever experienced). I don't propose to
> even try
> to better what has already been said, I will just recommend that
> you keep 1
> Aug 2008 free, because you deserve to be travelling in the run up
> to that
> day. Whether Arctic Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, Siberia, Mongolia
> or China
> just see it!
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