On Sun Dec-11-2011 12:11, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Jeff Snyder:   
      
    PQ> Hi! Jeff,   
      
    PQ> In a message to Roger Nelson you wrote:   
      
    JS> Here on Guam we were in a very favorable location for the eclipse. I   
    JS> watched it about seven hours ago during its totality phase. Except    
    JS> for a few light clouds blocking my view, it was very impressive,    
    JS> and clearly had a copper red color. But looking straight up at    
    JS> midnight -- and I do mean straight up -- for an extended period of    
    JS> time is hard on the neck and back for a guy my age.   
      
    PQ> I slipped out to the back porch/verandah for a quiet smoke around   
    PQ> 2300hrs local (which is close to yours as well IIRC) and caught   
    PQ> sight of a partial (maybe 40%).  The moon was still climbing to a   
    PQ> northerly aspect at that time, for us.  Just afterwards it was   
    PQ> totally lost to high-level cloud.   
      
    PQ> It was a lucky break in the clouds for me as we've just come out of   
    PQ> a week's worth of constant rain, of almost biblical mangnitude   
    PQ> (some talk around town of rainfall measured over a -yard- in the   
    PQ> old lingo, in places).    
      
   You guys have all the luck!  I wish I could have seen it and I'm sure I will   
   find nice pictures of it somewhere, but that wouldn't be the same.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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