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Total Solar Eclipse - 22 July 2009


Eclipse Day arrived with a very gloomy sky, putting everyone into a correspondingly gloomy mood. But everyone piled into the buses and we arrived at the site, optimistically set up equipment, and hoped for the best

Observing Site Panorama
Observing site panorama - click to see a larger view.

 
Not looking good...
Not looking good...
There's the sun!
There's the sun!

 

The sky continued to be solidly overcast until just before first contact...

Preliminaries  |   Arrival in China  |   Eclipse Day  |  Eclipse Views  |  Photos from Tibet
 
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