Comments on: The Best Eclipse Ever (of the moon and of the sun) https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:02:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: anon https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509739 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:02:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509739 If you can find a copy of an anthology called “Reporting: The Rolling Stone Style,” there’s a good article in there (by Timothy Ferris, IIRC) about a solar eclipse in Mauritania.

]]> By: Del Coelho https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509738 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:56:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509738 What beautiful story, Greg!!!

Thanks for share it with us.

]]> By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509737 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:07:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509737

I was such a geek that I actually missed the eclipse because I was busy collecting data

Ha! I remember some astronomer on The Sky At Night saying something along the lines of “I’ve [i]observed[/i] many eclipses, but I’ve never actually [i]watched[/i] one.”

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509736 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:31:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509736 PS. Seen quite a few lunar eclipses but will see my first solar eclipse – hopefully all going to plan – next November in a years time from Cairns northern Australia.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509735 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:28:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509735 Classic story. Love this post. Thanks 🙂

“Giant Gecko Moon.” LOL.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509734 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:39:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509734 For those who might be wondering: The photograph above of the Harvard Ituri Project camp is the wrong one; I meant to post a photo with a Baraza. And I still will when I get to the computer that has that on it. For now, imagine a pole-constructed leaf-roofed structure over everyone’s head.

In fact, the seats you see here are exactly the chairs in almost the same spot where we sat outside the night this story takes place.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509733 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:33:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509733 Very cool. Very interesting bird behavior.

I lived in Harwich briefly (for a couple of months), while doing archaeology for power lines in Chatham, Harwich, East Dennis and Brewster.

]]> By: joemac53 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509732 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:55:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509732 Greg, I was a junior in high school for the March 7, 1970 eclipse. I lived on Cape Cod (in Harwich) and the path of the total was just east of Monomoy Island. We skipped school that day and I went out on a boat owned by my girlfriend’s dad (a WWII Navy vet) with some reporters from the Cape Cod Times.
We were well prepared with dark glass, a welder’s helmet and the pinhole/paper setup to keep track of the progress of the eclipse. We had to explain to the reporters what the pinhole apparatus was for (we were snotty precocious rats).
The view was perfect, nice weather and the corona even better than advertised. I was surprised by the reaction of the birds, thousands of which returned to the island assuming daytime was over, then leaving again after the lights came back on.

A few years back I went out in my own little boat before school to see the transit of Venus across the Sun. I overloaded my retinas, but t was worth it. My students thought I was nuts.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509731 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:56:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509731 And then this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/david-geffen-is-youre-so_n_478110.html

Hahahaha

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509730 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:53:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/24/the-best-eclipse-ever-of-the-m/#comment-509730 And then, of course, there is this …

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2869512/Carly-Simon-ends-Youre-So-Vain-riddle.html

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