Success at TSE 2006

by Rob Hawley

A camp was set up in the desert about 2 kilometers from the main road. More than 2000 eclipse chasers were bused in there from both our ship and other groups. Easily the largest eclipse group that I have ever been with.

We have heard that most of the other land sites were also successful. Not sure about ships at see.

I have more than 80 photos of totality. I will post these once I return to the states.

It was raining in eastern Libya and Egypt on Monday. We were all looking closely at the weather patterns. Tuesday morning we took a look at the water vapour satellite and saw that an area of extremely dry air was going to be over the eclipse track the day of the eclipse. It is good to hear that Turkey was also cloud free. It looked like it was going to be that way, but we did not spend a lot of time thinking about the weather there.

Considering the bad luck with weather we all had this year (remember my week in Costa Rica taking pictures of thunderstorms) it was time for the karma to turn the other way.

Since my original email I confirmed that they also saw the eclipse at the Egyptian sites.

I published my photos and report on the S&T/TravelQuest Total Solar Eclipse to Libya:

http://www.robhawley.net/libya06

Please feel free to share this link with others. I will probably rev the site again near the end of April since some of the more technical information was not complete.

Posted on sf-bay-tac Mar 29, 2006 11:29:33 PT
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Addendum posted on sf-bay-tac Apr 08, 2006 07:55:15 PT
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