Partial Eclipse in UK Wednesday

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nigelswift Mar 26, 2006 17:59:31
Replying to suave harv

Totally agree with all your feelings. I was shocked rigid in '99 in Cornwall.

What did the ancients think? Gawd knows. Not only did it happen without them knowing it was going to, but while it was on they had no way of knowing if it would end - or did they???? Totality only happens on average every 400 years at any spot, so would they have any remembered knowledge of previous ones?

S suave harv
suave harv Mar 26, 2006 18:08:34
Replying to nigelswift

Cornwall '99. I had SUCH a predicament there. I had two choices. .

1) See the only eclipse in the UK in my lifetime, but it might be cloudy or . .
2) Go to France and have a *bit* better chance of seeing it.

In the end I went to France. I saw totality and it was awesome

www.suaveharv.com/eclipse.jpg

But wierdly, I've always felt a little envious of those that saw the eclpise from the UK. Even though most didn't see the actual eclipse because of clouds, they were there in the shadow in the UK, and I missed that.

You can feel nationalistic at the strangest times.

I'd like to read a well written book about the folks in Cornwall '99. I bet it was great!