Cover photographs: the total solar eclipse of 2003 December 4

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Feb 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jbaa..113....1h&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.113, no.1, p.1-3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Scores of BAA members again crossed the world to experience this relatively short eclipse, which had a maximum length of totality of only 2 min. 3.7 sec, in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean. Land-based observers had a choice of returning to Africa, unfortunately at a time of year when the weather could not be relied on, or viewing the eclipse at the far end of the track at sunset in Australia. The many hundreds of people who ignored the cloudy coastal area and travelled inland into the desert Outback were rewarded with a superb spectacle in a crisp, cloudless sky, followed only 35 minutes later by first a shimmering swingboat, then a golden shark's fin, cruising the featureless horizon.

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