Hi! Roger,

On 09 Jul 10 17:56, you wrote to All:

 RN> South Pacific Eclipse

 RN> July 9, 2010:  It's every vacationer's dream: You stretch out on a
 RN> white sandy beach for a luxurious nap under the South Pacific sun. The
 RN> caw of distant gulls wafts across the warm sea breeze while palm
 RN> fronds rustle gently overhead. You take it all in through half-closed
 RN> eyes.

Check.

 RN> Could Paradise get any better?

Check.  Nope...

 RN> This weekend it will.

Check.  Oh, really!?!...

 RN> On Sunday, July 11th, the new Moon will pass directly in front of the
 RN> sun, producing a total eclipse over the South Pacific. The path of
 RN> totality stretches across more than a thousand miles of ocean, making
 RN> landfall in the Cook Islands, Easter Island, a number of French
 RN> Polynesian atolls, and the southern tip of South America:

Dammit!  I miss out again.  The passage of the moon (west-2-east) is faster
than the (apparent) passge of the sun (east-2-west).

Thanks for that, Roger.  (I had no idea an eclipse was looming.)

Cheers,
Paul.

... A procrastinator's work is never done.
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