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tomtac ([personal profile] tomtac) wrote2007-08-21 10:05 am
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Marking my Calendar

I get excited over stuff in the sky we can see with our naked eyes. Eclipses are an example -- in the Stone Age, people did not have telescopes, but they could see eclipses just fine.

The best of them all is a good solar eclipse, and in ten years ... August 21, 2017 ... a solar eclipse will be visible from Oregon to South Carolina.

There -is- going to be one next year, August 1, 2008, but it starts on the Arctic shoreline of Canada, brushes the northern shore of Greenland, and heads off to Asia. I am not 100% certain there -are- roads that I could drive up to there, or if I could plan a trip up to that far north.

On the other hand, the 8/21/2017 eclipse will be passing over one of my favorite beaches.

Maybe you'll take a peek at it yourself, ten years from now?

Best regards.