a giant umbrella
OK, people, heads up. And I do mean this literally because in a few hours there’s going to be a TOTAL solar eclipse that’s going to take place. According to the AP article:
Crowds were anticipated in prime viewing points, among them Accra, the capital of Ghana, and in Turkey and India. In Ghana, the University of Cape Coast will broadcast the eclipse simultaneously on the Internet. Tens of thousands of tourists were expected along the Turkish Mediterranean coast.
Astronomers from NASA and Britain’s Royal Institute of Astronomy also were going to an ancient Roman amphitheater in Turkey to view the phenomenon.
Obviously, Malaysia is not going to be able so see zilch. If you’re in the same boat, there’s always the webcasts mentioned in the article. You can find links to them on Spaceweather.Com. I don’t know if the servers will be able to support the load cause I’m thinkin that there’s going to be alot of us trying to connect to them.
Spaceweather also says that the International Space Station (which I tried to track via Google Earth) will be in position to see the moon’s shadow being cast down on earth as the eclipse takes place. Ohhh, hang on a sec– geekgasm taking place.
Oh, happy day!
Edit: Heh. Brendan Loy a.k.a Irish Trojan points out on his blog that the same AP article I linked to is factually erroneous.
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