Eclipse Trip
2006 March 23 to April 7

Part 2:  The Eclipse in Libya

Temperature readings.
Latitude +28¡ 13' 47.7"   Longitude +21¡ 30' 43.3"
Universal Time.  Add two hours for local time.
2006-03-29

05:53    20.9

06:00    21.3
06:50    25.8
07:00    25.8
07:10    25.7
07:20    25.3
07:30    24.9
07:40    25.4
07:50    26.0
08:00    26.4
08:10    27.1
08:20    27.6
08:30    28.2
08:40    28.8
08:50    29.5
09:00    29.7
First Contact   
09:10    29.9
09:20    30.2
09:30    30.5    High
09:34    30.4
09:35    30.1
09:40    29.7
09:45    29.4
09:50    28.9
09:55    28.3
10:00    27.7
10:05    27.1
10:10    26.5
10:15    26.0
10:20    25.3
10:25    24.3
Total eclipse   
10:32    23.0
10:35    22.7
10:40    22.4
10:45    22.4    Low
10:48    22.5
10:50    22.5
10:55    22.9
11:00    23.7
11:10    25.0
11:20    26.4
11:30    28.2
11:40    29.5
11:50    30.5
Last contact   
12:00    31.4
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Our bus arrived -- almost!  Needed a tow out of sand 100 metres from our site


View from our site the night before the eclipse


Our site the morning of the eclipse.


Setting up.  Tent of Ralph Chou and Jim Low


The "facilities."


Set up for temperature recording.


The partial phase has begun.






Totality!





The planet Venus during totality.


Wide angle of totality.


Zoomed in on totality.

After Totality


Filters on : seconds after totality ends.






Sunset as we drive back from the eclipse campsite to Benghazi

 

Back in Benghazi the next day.

Go to Part 3:  Rome, Florence, Pisa


Part 1. Libya before the Eclipse
Part 2. The Eclipse in Libya
Part 3. Rome, Florence, Pisa
Part 4. Padau, Venice, Milan

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