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
.
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.
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