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  • Blog Post: On the road: Australia eclipse trip, eclipse day

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  • Blog Post: On the road: Australia eclipse trip, days 3 and 4

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  • Blog Post: Off to Australia for the total solar eclipse

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  • Blog Post: On the road: Annular eclipse trip, May 22, 2012

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  • Blog Post: After the annular eclipse, part 2

    Here are some further thoughts about the annular eclipse of May 20, 2012, which I viewed with a group of some 20 friends (if you haven't, read part 1 first ). 5) The eclipse itself was a spectacle. Granted, it was not a total eclipse, but there was majesty nonetheless. I've observed several annular...
  • Blog Post: Guest blog: Bucket List Astronomy Tour Class, May 20-21, 2012

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  • Blog Post: On the road: Annular eclipse trip, May 21, 2012

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  • Blog Post: Guest blog: 2012 annular eclipse from Bryce Canyon

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  • Blog Post: After the annular eclipse, part 1

    Here are some of my thoughts after Sunday's celestial spectacle: 1) The location was fantastic. We set up in a public park on grass as lush as I have ever seen. The feel of that turf, plus the fact that solar radiation wasn't baking us from below, as it would have if we'd set up on asphalt, made the...
  • Blog Post: On the road: Annular eclipse trip, May 20, 2012

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  • Blog Post: The day before annularity

    Yesterday was the day before the Moon crosses directly in front of the Sun. Unfortunately, our lone natural satellite lies too far from Earth to totally block it's light. The result? An annular eclipse , at whose peak a ring of the Sun's disk still surrounds the Moon. After overnighting in Tucson, Arizona...
  • Blog Post: On the road: Annular eclipse trip, May 19, 2012

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  • Blog Post: Annular eclipse: T minus 9 days

    On Sunday, May 20, observers along a narrow line throughout the western United States will be able to see the Sun, the Moon, and Earth line up. Unfortunately, the Moon will be near its farthest point from Earth, so it won’t totally cover the Sun’s disk. At mideclipse, a ring of sunlight still...
  • Blog Post: Falling Stars: The World Cup, Moai, and an eclipse …

    I captured this image of the partial phase of the total solar eclipse less than a minute before second contact. Mike Reynolds photo To me, it was a surreal scene for the July 11 total solar eclipse on Easter Island, my 17th total solar eclipse. Although many would think this is a large number, I know...
  • Blog Post: On the Road: Easter Island touring

    Tuesday, July 13, was an unusual winter day on Easter Island — it didn’t rain on us. Because the weather was favorable, we got to see some sites we missed the first day we were here. First was the volcanic crater at the southwestern edge of the island. Our busses dropped us off at its foot, intending...
  • Blog Post: On the Road: Easter Island and the Moai

    Fellow traveler Heather Mellows caught a beautiful wide-field image of the total solar eclipse July 11, 2010. Heather Mellows photo Monday, July 12, may have been the most relaxing day of my life. Why? Because the day before, our eclipse expedition group on Easter Island saw this year’s total solar eclipse...
  • Blog Post: 2010 eclipse pictures from Easter Island

    July 11, 2010, total solar eclipse from Easter Island. Jeff Houpt photo One of the members of Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich's 2010 solar eclipse tour group was nice enough to send in some pictures from July 11's total solar eclipse over Easter Island. Thanks, Jeff Houpt! Related blogs from...
  • Blog Post: On the Road: 2010 eclipse on Easter Island

    Update: Check out two blogs with pictures of the eclipse from my tour group! 2010 eclipse pictures from Easter Island and On the Road: Easter Island and the Moai I woke up yesterday (July 11) to rain, then a bit of blue sky, then more rain. Our meteorologist from Holland, Harry, predicted mostly clear...
  • Blog Post: On the Road: 2010 eclipse trip — Arica, Chile

    Our trip to stand under the Sun on Easter Island continues essentially without a hitch. Thursday, we drove through Chile’s Atacama Desert. What a fantastic experience! The contrast of the lifeless desert and a deep-blue sky was amazing. Today from our hotel in Arica, we take a city tour, which includes...
  • Blog Post: Senior editor reaches Chile

    I have temporary Internet access, so I thought I’d post a note. We didn’t have much access through Bolivia, as those of you reading my tweets and Facebook status updates might have noticed (sorry to bunch up all the updates like that). I think our access will be fine from now on. Fabulous trip so...
  • Blog Post: Senior editor off to Easter Island

    Easter Island holds 887 moai, or monumental statues. Among them, groups from around the world hope to observe a total solar eclipse July 11. Photo courtesy Astronomical Tours The next total solar eclipse will happen July 11 across the southern Pacific Ocean and a small part of southernmost South America...
  • Blog Post: Pictures from Astronomy’s annular eclipse trip to Africa, final batch

    OK, it’s the final batch of pictures from the magazine’s trip to Kenya to see the solar eclipse of two weeks ago. Enough already with the lions! Thanks to all of you who have contacted me about your enjoyment from these images, and let me say that for anyone considering a safari to eastern Africa, I...
  • Blog Post: Pictures from Astronomy's annular eclipse trip to Kenya, part one

    On Astronomy ’s 2010 Annular Eclipse Trip to Kenya, I had enough bandwidth to send back reports of our activities but not to relay photos and movies back home. Now that I have arrived back in the U.S.A., I will begin posting pictures from the trip in our Online Reader Gallery's Trips and Tours section...
  • Blog Post: On the road: Editor witnesses spectacular solar eclipse from Kenya

    They told us we would be up early for the eclipse, with first contact beginning a short time after seven in the morning. But some of us had had no sleep for more than two days, and unfortunately it took a major effort to get me up — your editor almost caused one of the buses to be late setting off for...
  • Blog Post: Kenya Annular Eclipse 2010 trip, Thursday

    Oh, it feels good to be in Kenya. As I mentioned in a previous blog, several of us bound for the Astronomy annular eclipse 2010 trip had our journeys truncated due to bad weather in London, and got off to a late start. Thus, instead of leaving on Saturday, January 9, we flew from Chicago to London on...