True, but having gone to BM twice, I thought the playa might be a cool place to see an annular eclipse. -- Joe ________________________________ From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 3:58:32 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] 2012 annular eclipse Agreed. Looks like the site will get just over 3.5 minutes of annularity with the eclipse at that time being 17 degrees above the horizon. They'll also be able to see 4th contact (we wont from Utah) as it'll still be 5 degrees above the playa at that time. But isn't May the wrong time of year? I think BM is in late summer. patrick p.s. Skydive Burning Man 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbtxH0B5Sfc On 04 Feb 2010, at 03:25, Chris wrote:
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
The farther west we go, the higher the sun, I assume. It goes near Reno -- I wonder how close it gets to the Burning Man site.
According to Google Earth's ruler tool, the eclipse center line is about 50 miles away from the Burning Man site at the nearest-approach point (in the vicinity of Pyramid Lake).
Chris
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