Hi! Jeff,

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
 JS> clouds blocking my view, it was very impressive, and clearly had a
 JS> copper red color. But looking straight up at midnight -- and I do 
 JS> mean straight up --
 JS> for an extended period of time is hard on the neck and back for a guy
 JS> my age.

I slipped out to the back porch/verandah for a quiet smoke around 2300hrs
local (which is close to yours as well IIRC) and caught sight of a partial
(maybe 40%).  The moon was still climbing to a northerly aspect at that
time, for us.  Just afterwards it was totally lost to high-level cloud.

It was a lucky break in the clouds for me as we've just come out of a
week's worth of constant rain, of almost biblical mangnitude (some talk
around town of rainfall measured over a -yard- in the old lingo, in
places).

Cheers,
Paul.

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