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Total solar eclipses, 29.3.2006 + 22.7.2009
Found more data for the solar eclipse on March 29 2006... while I still want to be in Africa (after the moonshadow makes landfall in Ghana, or perhaps while standing in the Sahara Desert), there is this plot showing the circumstances in central Turkey. Click on the map contained in that link and bear witness to the power of CalSKY.
Speaking of bearing witness, take a look at the last eclipse indexed on this page: 22 July 2009. Note that it passes over N. India -- specifically (and I've already plotted this using Starry Night) the holy cities of Bodh Gaya and Varanasi (approx. 25N, 84E)... one hour and eight minutes after the sun rises... with a maximum phase of 108.1% I'm still tweaked when I see those numbers; 108 is an important number/vibration in Hindu, Buddhist and, as it happens, Hebrew traditions. What I'm struck by is the comparatively short eclipse track, kinda like the event was mean just for that part of the world...
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"Don't tread on me, either."
HST 1937-2005
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