CVJ, you really need to get a Feedburner RSS feed going for CV. Your Powerbook (w/iMovie & good video-camera, say the portable high-definition Sony HDR-HC1) is a nice solution for iPod/iTunes videos. It’s what I use, except I use a fancy Sony FX1 HD camera + iMovie. I myself got 5 video-podcasts listed yesterday (only took 24 hrs for Apple iTunes Music Store to review them, & list them). In 24 hrs, CV could be listed & searchable in iTunes Music Store on the term “Cosmic Variance”, “theoretical physics”, “SLAC”, “USC physics”, “Cornell physics”, “University of Chicago physics”, “Clifford Johnson”, “Joanne Hewett “, “Mark Trodden”, “Sean Carroll”, “Risa Wechsler”, etc (the special Feedburner RSS feed allows you to specify the relevant search terms). If you need help, get in touch with me via email or phone. There’s some Learning Curve, & Feedburner still has “issues”..it’s all late-breaking Beta software technology based on Apple’s “video iPod” test. Still bugs & snafus lurking around.

CV can start making video-posts: to combat pseudo-science, provide Public Information on your research (a better informed public is more likely to fund Scientific Research). You can carry around a video-iPod (or have the public do the same thing), showing videos & say “this is what theoretical physicists do, & the issues we have to deal with”. A GREAT Public Relations tool. It would also get CV rated as a #1 Blog.

I can contribute some of my eclipse videos (shot on HD) to CV, say as a “guest contributor”. I setup a Eclipse Science video-blog (& corresponding video-podcast), which has some eclipse videos:

http://eclipsescience.blogspot.com
[ click on the upper-right icon to jump to the iTunes video-podcast, or do a search in iTUnes Music Store on "eclipse science" ]

Again, it took only 24 hrs for iTunes Music Store to list the video-podcast. I can show people eclipse videos via iPod, i.e. “Public Information in a Pocket”. Phil Plait should do the same thing for his Bad Astronomy site, it would be an effective tool to combat crackposts/nuts/idiots/fools who intentionally push nonsense to the Public.

I look forward to seeing CV on iTunes as a video-podcast. It would be great to see footage of the USC Molecular Biology Lab, SLAC (via Joanne), etc over a video-iPod. QTVR panoramas can actually PLAY on iTunes (however, the iPod can’t play them).

BTW, does anyone here using the Texas Instruments CBL (”calculator based laboratory”) for their undergrad course work in Physics? (widely used in HS physics courses) I was using it to collect Temperature & Light data during eclipse (in conjunction with TI83+). Unforunately, I’m having problems downloading the data from my TI83+..I’m only getting 1/3 the data-set. I’m using an old TI GraphLink software (circa 2001), with an old GraphLink cable (modem-port connection for old Macs, not USB). I tried everything, but no go. I even tried a TI83+ to TI86 transfer, which failed. ARGH! There are no useful forums, to ask questions about problems.

I was collaborating with Richard Taylor (HS physics teacher in Texas, I believe he worked at SLAC many yrs ago), except he’s on sabbatical in UK..& on spring break in New Zealand! Not available to help me. Since I live 2 blocks from Caltech, I think I can find someone there to download the data from TI83+ (using more modern software & cables).

cheers,

-cvj

http://www.jumplive.com/lbgp06/index.html

Have a look at the QTVR presentation, it gives you an “immersive experience” of what it was like to be there.

Like the TV station said, it was a “picture postcard day”. It’s one of my favorite races.

- Long Beach Convention Center
they have concerts, theatre, etc there

- race cars
Engineering & Applied Science: front & rear wing downforce (aka, “negative lift” in aerodynamic terminology), engine (metallurgy, alloys, heat treating/equalization), chassis design/stress/fracture analysis..Condensed Matter Physics (my ex-classmate is a Physics prof @UT Austin..UC Santa Barbara PhD/Cornell undergrad, this is his specialty), Materials Science (carbon fiber technology). Stephen Hawking & his son are Formula 1 fans, & are sometimes seen in Williams F1 pit. One of John Doyle’s (Caltech/Nonlinear Dynamics & Control) grad students ended up at Williams F1, he has a website talking about “Complex Adaptive Systems” (M. Gell-Mann’s fascination at Santa Fe Inst) in relation to Formula 1 racing..it is a VERY complicated ordeal.

“I’d rather be LUCKY, than GOOD..any day”
– famous auto-racing saying
[ illustrates the importance of "chance" in the equation of "winning races". Something like the Wave function in particle physics, it's very probabilistic. Determinism is not a factor ]

Some drivers at this race are ex-Formula 1 drivers (A. Pizzonia/Italy, C. da Matta/Brazil, Nigel Mansell/UK, Timo Glock/Germany), & some drivers move on to Formula 1 (Jacque Villeneuve/Canada, Juan Montoya/Columbia, M. Andretti)

Auto Racing is a fascinating metaphor for Scientific Research: both involve teamwork, it’s EXTREMELY competitive, egos & talent abound, LUCK plays a big part in Winning (”making discoveries”), a long drawn out “campaign” over several years in getting a Season Championship (Driver, Mfr, Constructor, etc). My pet peeve, is that Academia (a bit of “Unreality”, isolated from the Real World: publishing papers, etc) suffers from a lack of “Reality”. They could use a dose of “Sun Tzu, Art of War” as part of their coursework in Research. It IS taught at all the big-name business schools (incl Harvard). I bet if it is taught in Engineering & Science curriculums, it would improve performance. Auto Racing has a Diversity componenet, & I think it’s ahead of Academia in that respect.

- great food
I was at the Motorsports Hall of Fame (Long Beach) ceremony, where Phil Hill (American Formula 1 champion) was inducted. Food was great. The cafes nearby had good food also. I also made friends with some team-owners (Kevin Kalkhoven/PKV Racing & Derrick Walker/Team Australia), & sampled their catering, & here

- lots of beautiful people
here & here. The professional models gave me their cards, & I gave them mine. They were excited about the LiveWebCasting & iPod/iTunes mediums, it obviously would be helpful to their careers..EXPOSURE. The hospitality area was filled with “beautiful people”, mainly people associated with Sponsors. Hugh Hefner was in attendance, with his bevy of beauties. It was his birthday, & I wanted to cover it..didn’t have time. Of course, the Celebrity Race had its share of celebrities. William Shatner (of Star Trek fame) was a driver, & Monday’s episode of Entertainment Tonight had some footage of his big wreck in Turn 1.

- excitement
racing, parachutists before race, F18 flyover, Mariachi band, Lifestyle Expo in Convention Center (incl Tecate Girls)

http://www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl06/secl06.html

I hooked up with 2 of the leading QTVR photographers to pull this off.

[ R. Fisher & J. Leung, the latter who is friends with K. Turkowski. This is the "Art & Science" paradigm at work. "Art" is the photographers, end users of QTVR "digital photography". "Science" (Applied Science, or "Engineering" as Caltech calls it) are engineer/mathematicians like Ken who develop the algorithms for "Digital Photography" (Caltech has a course named like this). Ken is a UC Berkeley Elec Eng MSEE, & UIUC BSEE (we graduated nearly the same time)..he led the Apple QTVR group is quite a math whiz. He has given talks at MIT & Stanford, & is widely known/respected. He & S. Wolfram know each other. Ken & I are collaborating on some future projects. ]

Do check out the beautiful QTVR presentations from my Egypt trip by R Fisher & J. Leung. I had SO MUCH stuff going on, I had to have help from these guys. Just, like the CV blog is a Cooperative/Collaborative/Coordinated (”C cubed”) effort among CVJ, Joanne, Mark, Sean, Risa. Strength in numbers (”team work”). A Caltech CS professor told me about getting “New Ideas” accepted for publication (which are often rejected):

“go into it, with a group of people”
“Even Einstein had problems”
[ his work on Relativity was so "radical" (ahead of his time), his peers didn't understand it. The way it was told to me by my geologist friend was: "well, Einstein has got something here, but we don't understand it. Just give him a Nobel Prize for the Photoelectric effect"

(which is now being disputed credit-wise, his 1st wife the genius girl from Yugoslavia collaborated on it. See recent NOVA episode. Apparently, there is some paper-trail in Russia in a submitted paper. Einstein paid her w/proceeds of the Nobel Prize so there is some strong circumstantial evidence)

There was a good show on DNA Revolution, where a couple of Stanford researchers were using some of the new Bio-Informatics (heavy in computer algorithms). Their paper was rejected (Biologist peers don't understand Computer Science), which prompted the following response:

"I think I need to LIE DOWN!"

He was so flabbergasted by the ignorance of "peer review", he was about to go "unconscious". It happened to me BIG TIME during my Doctoral Research 20 odd yrs ago, I personally led a breakthrough in my field (it sometimes happens w/grad students). I single-handedly embarassed a LOT of big-name researchers, Proceedings papers were accepted BUT Journal papers were turned away. It's STILL LIKE this to this day..20 YEARS. It's being taught wrong @Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, etc. Some clown wrote a book, & didn't research it thoroughly, so all these universities are "teaching out of a book":

"If you believe everything you read, BETTER NOT READ BOOKS!"
-- Japanese proverb

"Knowledge Creation [ new ideas ], VS Knowledge Consumerism [ rote memorizing, reading out of a book ]”
– R.L. Moore/UT Austin/Discovery Learning Project
[ one of my ex-classmates is a Physics prof @UT Austin, & is involved with above. We both came of out of a famous high-school, which was on the leading edge of "New Math" curriculum development, Dr. Max Beberman. The other effort was led by G. Polya/Stanford. BTW, I was classmates with David Pines (M. Gell-Mann's best-friend, best-man at this wedding) son & daughter. I think D. Pines & M. Gell-Man co-founded the Santa Fe Inst. Ira Handler was also a classmate (son of Philip Handler, they guy who annoyed R. Feynman after his Nobel, by calling him up to become a member of NAS? See Surely you Must be Joking book ]

“I cannot Understand, what I cannot CREATE”
– RP Feynman
[ great quote. In reference, to proving in Shannon's IT xxx, in an alternate context. Physics is about DOING. Many fields get caught up by "learning out of a book"..big mistake. Geology & Geophysics requires field-trips, getting up close & personal with the "medium". I think this is why String Theory is getting such a bad rap, where is the Experimental component? In my own PhD work, I went out & came up with New Ideas (very simple), & easy calculations. My field still hasn't caught on (after 20 odd years), they're still stuck reading out of a poorly researched book!? It reminds me of Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" lecture, where "thinking" has been replaced by "reacting".

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
-- Niels Bohr to Einstein
[ the key word is "thinking"..ANYTHING ELSE (reacting, superstition, religion, etc) gets in the way ]

Even *researchers* can get caught up on this. Anyone who has done research knows about this in their own fields ]

All they have to do is a literature search, & they’ll find my papers which establishes:

“Simple Answers, to Simple Questions..TURNED OUT TO BE REALLY EXCITING!”
– M. Gell-Mann, from “Student to Scientist”
(a really outstanding PBS program, it’s aired locally on KLCS PBS in Los Angeles area, Wed 10am. Look for it.)

What is being taught at universities, is this ridiculous complicated (erroneous, there is a paper-trail where I found those errors, with acknowledgment to me) algorithms. They are teaching grad students how NOT to do research! (violation of the Simple/Elegant paradigm which is the “Holy Grail” (sorry about the religious reference) of Physics)

A few yrs ago, I wrote a Berkely CS professor..no response. Hopeless. One of my old profs ended up at Univ of Michigan, EE dept as Deptarment Head. He told me of story, where his NSF proposal was turned down:

“it was a Multidisciplinary proposal. It was shuffled around various depts, each of which said ‘oh, send it to the other dept..it’s not our specialty’”

You see how, the current bureacracy CAN’T HANDLE Multi-Disciplinary (”interdisciplinary”) research. It’s too over-specialized, compartmentalized. He told me he was going to re-submit it (in his retirement years!). Frankly, in my case, I’m just moving on to new stuff.

The classic case of the above is Alfred Wegener (German meteorologist who proposed Continental Drift in early 1900’s) & was ridiculed as a “crackpot” by his geophysicst peers. Do a Google search on some of the comments, it’s absurd. Of course, Wegener was proved right (after 70 odd yrs) & they call it Plate Tectonics (my geologist friend told me this was further disrespect, since they changed the name from “continental drift”).

You have to wonder about String Theory, is it going down the same path as:

“today’s Absurdity (radical proposal), is tomorrow’s Reality (accepted Theory)”
“Every Absurdity, has its Champion”
[ one of my favorite quotes ]

or, is the absence of the Experiment+Theory paradigm dooming it to just fanciful ideas. I ran it by a Caltech post-doctoral scholar on DNA Computing (I met him, where I met R. Feynman’s son-in-law..Rose Bowl field where people fly R/C aircraft), & he said “Cosmology is Religion”. On the way back from Egypt, this girl was wearing this really great T-shirt:

“This is Old, therefore it is GOOD. This is New, therefore it is BETTER”
– Progress paradigm

You look at research 2, 5, 10, 50, 100 yrs ago & you can see how backwards we were back then. The Leading Edge (aka “bleeding edge”) of Technology (or Research) definitely is Ahead of the Curve. There are a few cases of “Older is Better”. There are some cases of current research topics that are flat out foolish. Example from my own field: Quaternions. The Digital Photography in Computer Graphics research (QTVR, et al) stuff has re-introducted Quaternion representation of 3D rotations. This is ABSURD! In the late 1800’s, there was a great rift between the “Vector Analysis” & “Quaternion” camps in the Mathematics community: the VA crowd won.

[ this has implication in Physics, I ran it by John Huges/Brown Univ (Princeton PhD/Mathematics). He gave me an interesting insight, on how the Quaternion representation has been used in Physics. I also ran it by J. Baez/UC Riverside ]

For my research field, it’s just flat-out silly. They resurrected a “dead horse”. I look at the research papers today using Q representations, & just LAUGH! I was talking to an ex-Caltech CS researcher (now at UC Irvine, Yale PhD..a leading authority), & he agreed with me. He told me of a research topic, where a recent paper basically REPEATED work done in the late 1800’s. Peer Review does a POOR JOB of Accountability: current research is not *checked* against prior research (especially WAY long ago):

“You can deny Responsibility, but you cannot deny Accountability”
[ good quote, that came out of 9/11 fiasco ]

Sorry about rambling.

I got fried for 4 days at the Long Beach GP. Katherine Legge finished 8th in her debut ChampCar race. A Top 10 finish is very respectable, & I expect her to improve. I spoke with her
[ & other racers like Nelson Philippe (France, very computer savvy..has iPod hemself), Alex Tagliani (Italian Canadian)..who is computer literate in Windows Mobile ]

& she is excited about the video-podcast I did for her.

CV needs to get listed as a video-podcast on iTunes, to “broadcast” via video..over the 42 million iPods out there.

Good Lord….. whatever gave you that impression? What kind of boy do you think I am?  

-cvj

http://eclipsescience.blogspot.com

It will be available as a video-podcast over iPod/iTunes by sometime today. I.e., downloadable to your portable video-iPod, so you can show friends the “experience of Totality”.

CV needs to get a Feedburner RSS feed submitted to iTunes, to get a Cosmic Variance video-podcast. CVJ/Joanne/Mark/Sean need to do informational-videos to combat pseudo-science (& any other issue you choose), so they can be viewed on a portable video iPod (42 million out there & counting, 14 million sold last holiday quarter). The nutcases are using this Technology, religious zealots are using the iPod (audio podcast) to deliver their message, called “Godcasting”.

Technology is a double-edged sword, it can help or hurt you. The latter manifests itself, when the enemy (anti-science types) embrace the Technology. All the frustrations expressed on CV by crackpots/idiots/fools/morons is even more worrisome! My Jumplive.com technology-initiative is ALL about Agile/Mobile/Hostile: using the mobile technologies (cellphone, PDA, laptop, mobile satellite-DSL) to deliver LIVE pics/videos from ANYWHERE..even from desolate areas like Baja Mexico (offroad races). My experience showed, in my recent blogging for the Egyp solar eclipse. I’d really like to see CV get on the “Bleeding Edge” of Technology, & raise your game to the “next level”. We need to talk privately about this (& other issues).

“If you don’t play, you get left behind”
– Zaslav, head of NBC Universal, after they did their NBC/DirecTV VoD (Video on Demand deal) when Apple’s video iPod experiment was a huge success

[ see here for details ]

I updated my eclipse website:

http://www.comet-track.com/eclipse/secl06/secl06.html

[ I have LOTS more to upload, so keep checking back for the next 2 weeks ]

I came back with bit of a fever, along with being pretty tired. I still haven’t taken a bath since Mar 23 (when I arrive in Cairo). The blogging, traveling, etc simply makes demands that puts personal-hygiene on the back-burner. If you look at my 2 blogs (& above site), one must wonder “where does he find time to do all that?”. Answer: you have to make sacrifices, “pay the price”.

“Go Hard.or GO HOME!”
– offroad saying

“If you’re gonna go..GO BIG”
– offroad racing

I was going “Big” (a grand slam), & going “hard” (a Willie Stargell like homer out of Dodger Stadium). My ego needs to be fed.

The medium-format images weren’t that fouled up, I actually have a nice set for color & B&W (high-res). The latter has a long-exposure corona shot @3rd contact! (purely by accident) A very difficult thing to do as a “planned” task. However, I lost *precise* 3rd contact on my prominence camera..that was disappointing. Dave is coming by (I live 2 blocks from Caltech), to pickup the medium-format negs to scan. I should have some nice corona pics within a few days, something like you see here from Zambia: color & B&W versions.

You will notice a mutliple-exposure shot of partial phases with Totality. THIS is a tough shot to pull off. I had to be at my site 24 hrs in advance (which I wasn’t because of location logistics, see blogs) to find the sun into the middle of the camera frame (50mm lens); then on E-day, I slightly rotate the camera to find the eclipsed sun @1st contact in the diagonal of the frame. What I ended up doing, was doing the latter..& guess-timating for the former. I was close, see here. . So, I’m happy with this unexpected success.

My intervalometer-based wide-angles turned out more disappointing than I thought. The circular fisheye camera only did 7 exposure, non obtained during Totality. The 14mm rectilinear was 1.5 stops underexposed..I couldn’t believe I left the EV compensation dial to 1.5 under! The 16mm full-frame fisheye was fine. The 20mm (w/mausoleium in foreground) was fine during totality, but for some reason the pre-totality frames were unexposed!

Moral of Story:
Pre Flight Preparation Precludes Post-Flight Peril
“It’s all about PREPARATION”

I did myself in, by preparing my eclipse program FOUR DAYS before I left. Way too last minute. Being rushed, accounts for all the little mistakes.

I’m shooting the Long Beach Grand Prix starting today, this is what last year looked like:

http://longbeachgrandprix.blogspot.com
[ available as a video-podcast over iPod/iTunes, you can download the videos to your video iPod ]

Lots of color, pageantry, race cars, attractive women, partying, good food (hint to CVJ: you need to try to make it, Sat & Sun), Hollywood celebrities for their race, Beauty contest, music festival, Lifestyle Expo show in auditorium.

There’s some excitement about Kathernine Legge (English woman), she was promoted to the big-series (Champ Car, 750HP) from Toyota Atlantic. Last year, she scored THREE wins (yeah, a bunch of guys “got beat by a girl”)..2 of them were consecutive. One of them was LBGP..exactly a year ago. I did a video-blog for her (available as a video-podcast over iPod/iTunes):

http://katherinelegge.blogspot.com

Do a Google search on her, great stuff on gender issues in auto-racing. The latter has a number of woman racers (2005 was the year of the woman race car driver, Danica Patrick was leading the Indy 500 late in the race). Larry Summers needs to study the K. Legge “data point”, it shows that women are quite capable to compete at a high level alongisde men, in possible the most macho-sport on the planet. Auto Racing is a “rough game”, as per A.J. Foyt (aka “Big TEX”)

CVJ, I think you have a multitude of incentives to do the LBGP: food, partying, hanging with Hollywood celebrities, checking out “diversity in action” (women in racing).

http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com

my laptop about to die from dead battery..just made it . Whew!

I asked the flight attendant about rates, & it’s 9.95/hr (14.95/2hrs). It’s Boeing Connexion. I recall seeing a show about WiFi capability for Apple employees traveling back to Silicon Valley. Apparently, I found it on my flight. I uploaded some pics of my flight:

http://solareclipse.textamerica.com

Check out the pics of the Greenland coast, the relief is AMAZING! We’re still over Greenland, the relief is real flat, some subtle mottliong on a flat snow plain. As I blog, the images are just 30 min old. Technically, this could have been done *near real-time* like I do at the Baja offroad races. But, I didn’t bring my special PDAs (they have Bluetooth, which allows my BT phone to send picture emails). I coulda used my Powerbook (BT capable) but I don’t have time to figure it out. I’m on a 30 min free trial for the WiFi hotspot (over in 3 minutes).

Yeah, Plato. I will have more to say, I certainly have a lot of “local knowledge” on this real-time mobile-blogging thing. My friends (Laurie/Estonia
& Wade/Colorado) & I were discussing it into the wee hours this morning (4am).

I seen the worst of what humanity can do to each other from the battle front gone wrong, in Serbian Cleansing with villages of Croation men. While this was the worst it helped society keep an eye on itself and sparked the revulsion of present day that such things could exist, that we react as a society?

This “real time reporting” is what is wonderful about what cosmicvariance crew is doing, and others, like yourself are doing with science.

With knowledgeable and responsible science reporting, as KC Coles is teaching, this medium is sidestepping “controlled access” to information. Should this not be a right to get as good information as we can from the contributors here in their comments?

Real time reporting such as you’ve done is a wonderful extension of our abilites to get real time information. Shall we control the communication highway to captialistic adventures and lose the freedoms of expression?

Is uploading “science video” the next step for cosmicvariance? You seem to be on the forefront with this. Good stuff:)

[ the guy sitting next to me on the flight from Cairo to Frankfurt is a geologist turned Environmental Scientist working for Siemens..he was reading Scientific American, the cover had something about particle Physics. He told me that in Germany, after 12pm everything stops. Maybe, that's why our power outlet quit ]

Our laptops were in jeopardy of losing juice, so we set out in search of a power-outlet. Found one, with a steel bar over it. My adapter wouldn’t fit, but Laurie’s adapter let us plug in our power supplies. So, we are connecting to Internet & blogging from the floor:

http://solareclipse.textamerica.com

I couldn’t maintain my T-mobile WLAN! (there goes another $18 Euro). But, we found a Vodafone connection. Except, now..I couldn’t upload! So, Laurie figured out a way around it (SSH tunnel, to use SOCKS protocol to access Web thru SSH server). So, you see the above uploads.

It’s 1am here, & we’re still messing around on the Internet. Wade did some Google Map simulations of the eclipse-path (see above URL), & Laurie related his experience from Estonia for the ‘99 eclipse (using smoked glass with his grandfather).

http://www.rcfisher.com/eclipse/full.html
http://www.rcfisher.com/eclipse/partial.html

It’s an attempt to give one a “virtuality reality” feel of an eclipse (Immersive Technology). I’m sitting next to a guy (from Colorado) who went to Antalya/Turkey for eclipse, he had clear skies. So, I assume Amara saw eclipse.

Here is the test pano I did 2 days before I left, to make sure I got the nodal point right:

http://www.rcfisher.com/pano.mov

You can see my collection of physics books (Feynman Lectures on Physics, one entitled Cosmic ****), math books (Springer Verlag yellow book). You can see that I live in a dungeon

http://solareclipse.textamerica.com
http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com

I ended up getting cramps & got sick..just like at Giza/pyramids. Raging temperature, but I got over it on the overnight bus ride back to Cairo. I thought for sure I was gonna get sick on the bus.

My flight leaves in several hours, I go now to pack.

http://solareclipse.textamerica.com

I leave 11pm for an all night hike up to Mt. Sinai to see the sunrise.

http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com

http://solareclipse.textamerica.com

I ended up getting sick from heat prostration, came back early to rest. Feel better, for the Dahab trip.

http://solareclipse.textamerica.com
[ various pics ]

http://eclipsescience.blogspot.com
[ a blog report ]

More stories & eclipse description later..

http://solareclipse.textamerica.com

It was my 1st digital camera pic of an eclipse, I’m slowly integrating digital into my eclipse program (still mostly film).

The logistics that went into doing this eclipse was FORMIDABLE, many obstacles had to be overcome:

1) vehicle issues
major left-front hub issues (broken caliper. It was NOT looking good, I tell you.. We made 2 fixes: one on the Hwy (20 clicks from El Alamein), then limped on right-front brakes to Marsa-Matrouh for final fix.

2) weather issues
Man, it was raining 2 days before E-day!? Today, was “scary good”, according to a Boston meteorologist who spoke with Jay Anderson (official NASA eclipse meteorologist). The rain cleared out the air (dust was considered a factor in limiting visibility), this is one of the best eclipses I’ve seen in terms of weather.

3) location issues
DANG! I have to write about it later, it was so INVOLVED. I got permission to observe in a restricted Army area, next to a mausoleum (see above URL)..3 coffins inside. I slept next to it, under the stars the night before.

Some of my program ran fine, others had glitches. I went for the “bomb’, & ended up with a “grenade”. I’m dead tired, I’ve been going continuous since 5am, it’s 10pm & need to hit the sack. I might post some more pics from Marsa-Matrouh tomorrow.

[snip -cvj]

Anyways. I was wondering if you knew anyplace online that was giving a online show of the eclipse tomorrow.

[snip -cvj]

I dont think I have ever seen a total, and i would like to see this if possible.

Thanks for your time.

Mark

I actually don’t know the answer to this question, but maybe some of the eclipse specialists reading this might know? If so…come here and tell us!

-cvj