Here's
a good article featuring a total Solar eclipse. SEED is a science
magazine- but the author of this article (Jake Silverstein) had never
experienced one before. Silverstein is describing his experience at the
March 29, 2006 eclipse in southern Turkey.
In my opinion, it's worth reading the whole article, but if you want to skip to the eclipse itself, scroll down to page 64. (The page numbers are at the top center of each page). Look for a big "B", which starts the sentence "Brown had scheduled...." (There's a graphic of the Earth, Sun and Moon on that page as well.) (It's page 7 on the PDF.)
Read from there until the big "I" on page 66 (page 9 on the PDF). That takes you from the night before the eclipse, through the eclipse itself:
http://nicmosis.as.arizona.
Notice:
In my opinion, it's worth reading the whole article, but if you want to skip to the eclipse itself, scroll down to page 64. (The page numbers are at the top center of each page). Look for a big "B", which starts the sentence "Brown had scheduled...." (There's a graphic of the Earth, Sun and Moon on that page as well.) (It's page 7 on the PDF.)
Read from there until the big "I" on page 66 (page 9 on the PDF). That takes you from the night before the eclipse, through the eclipse itself:
http://nicmosis.as.arizona.
Notice:
- how the author is absolutely transfixed by the eclipse.
- how all the things he had learned about eclipses still did not prepare him for how truly awesome it was.
- how he understood (after he witnessed totality) why people chase total solar eclipses all over the world.
Thanks to Glenn Schneider (featured in the article) for scanning the article and posting it on his site- and thank you for reading it!
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