| What
are you doing on August 11 at 4 a.m. (Pacific Time)? |
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The
Program:
We'll track the eclipse, through live coverage, from
the time it reaches landfall in England. Here are the
approximate times and locations of our live coverage: |
2:30 a.m. (PT), 9:30 a.m. (U.T.): Live Webcast
begins.
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3:10
a.m. (PT),
10:10 a.m. (U.T.): The eclipse reaches landfall in England.
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3:25
a.m. (PT),
10:25 a.m. (U.T.): Near Paris, then north of Geneva.
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3:40
a.m. (PT),
10:40 a.m. (U.T.): Central Munich, Germany
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| 4:15
a.m. (PT),
11:15 a.m. (U.T.): The Black Sea |
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4:30
a.m. (PT),
11:30 a.m. (U.T.): Amasya, Turkey
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If
you can skip a trip to dreamland that night, you might want to join
us for an exciting all-nighter at the Exploratorium. We'll be Webcasting
the last total solar eclipse of the millennium, courtesy of the "Live
@ the Exploratorium" series, and in partnership with NASA's Sun-Earth
Connection Education Forum and NASA's High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic
Imager (HESSI) mission. The live broadcast will appear on this site.
Using
satellite and high-speed Internet connections, we'll link observers
at sites along the eclipse's path of totality--including a NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center eclipse expedition on a ship in the Black Sea--with
experts and an audience at the Exploratorium, on the Web, and at other
museums nationwide. We'll have correspondents in England, France, Germany,
and Switzerland, reporting on the event. The two main vantage points
for our eclipse teams will be Amasya, Turkey--smack dab on the path
of totality‹and the Exploratorium, where researchers will offer scientific
insight and answer questions from a museum and Web audience.
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| Eclipse
central: The Exploratorium's Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio,
where the whole event will come together. |
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If
eclipse coverage from the Exploratorium sounds familiar, that's because
this will be the second time we've watched one with you. On February
26, 1998, as a total solar eclipse traveled over the Caribbean island
of Aruba, nearly 1,000 Exploratorium visitors and more than 100,000
Internet visitors worldwide were able to share in the thrill of this
breathtaking phenomenon. That eclipse was visible only over a path from
the Galapagos Islands across Venezuela and the Caribbean Islands. In
collaboration with NASA, an Exploratorium crew in Aruba provided live
coverage worldwide via satellite and high-speed Internet connections.
At the Exploratorium, staff scientists moderated visitor questions for
the Aruba team and conducted demonstrations of the science behind an
eclipse. A simultaneous satellite television feed of the eclipse, made
possible by the Exploratorium, reached over 25 million viewers. To view
archived footage of last years eclipse event visit our archive.
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