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Date Posted: 04:04:24 08/14/09 Fri
Author: Morgan
Subject: Re: Sometimes it goes terribly wrong
In reply to: Roger 's message, "Re: Sometimes it goes terribly wrong" on 13:53:39 08/12/09 Wed

We arrived in Shanghai 48 hours before the eclipse, checked the weather forecast and grabbed a flight 1800km inland the next day, hoping to get out of the clouds - no luck - should have gone to India. Saros 136 not performing this year - looking forward to 2027 at Luxor.

>We had an annular eclipse
>here in 1994, and clouds rolled in just before
>totality. I managed to put all the kids in the car and
>drive like hell to get out from under the clouds in
>time to see totality, or at least annularity.
>
>Roger
>

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