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 
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