![]() Except for folks on ships at sea, and the occasional ocean-dwelling critter who dares to venture too near the surface, nothing sentient will note the passing of the umbra as it sweeps across the water. ![]() Omoka and Te Tautua Villages will witness a beautiful crescent sunrise! The eclipse at the Atoll will feature over 98% coverage of the Sun’s disk, but sadly, it will not be total!Ī minute after it touches down, the entire shadow (the "umbral cone") will have made landfall – er, ocean-fall – and will be racing across the surface of the water at supersonic speed. This point is just north of Penrhyn Atoll in the Cook Islands, where residents of And, as predicted by the astronomers decades in advance, the shadow arrives with perfect accuracy, and touches down in the South Pacific Ocean at 16:38:44 UT, at local sunrise. Like a mindless juggernaut, it plows its way through space toward a collision course with Earth. No human action can disrupt the incessant dance of the cosmos, and the Moon's shadow will not wait on you if you're not ready. Nothing will stand in their way of seeing the eclipse! Weather monitoring will proceed around the clock, with live updates issued hourly so as to best prepare eclipse-chasers who will need to move at a moment's notice. Last-minute weather forecasts are checked, and anyone with the slightest fear of clouds on eclipse day will invoke their travel contingencies. People who have converged on those sites to view the eclipse will begin the countdown to eclipse day, as final preparations are made to ensure that photography equipment, filters, chairs, tables, telescopes, TV monitors, webcast equipment, hats, sunscreen, and eclipse glasses are all at the ready for the big day! Cities along the path who have decided to create official eclipse viewing areas will have their focus set on logistics, to ensure the comfort, enjoyment and safety of their guests. Foreign visitors will be be wrapping up their sightseeing tours, and getting to their selected viewing areas early to ensure that no travel glitches have an opportunity to deprive them of their true goal. These people are coming to North America to see one of nature’s grandest spectacles – a total solar eclipse! For those of us who already live here, but have never seen totality, this is the opportunity of a lifetime – to see the most beautiful thing on the planet, and maybe not even have to get on an airplane to get to it!Īlmost everyone who plans to see the eclipse will be in position. These people will travel through miles of desert or forest or frozen wasteland, braving the harshest of conditions.for a short glimpse at the eclipsed Sun. These people will fill hotel rooms, sometimes inadvertently displacing locals from their homes as space gets harder to come by. These people will make contingency travel plans in case of last-minute clouds. ![]() Except for people returning home, visiting family, or conducting business at what happens to be just exactly the right time in history, these will be people who make it a point to travel to wherever the Moon's shadow is going to touch the earth, and position themselves in a spot carefully chosen - sometimes years in advance - to ensure they see the sight. People from all over the world begin to converge on North America. ![]()
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