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From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 20:22:32 EDT Subject: Eclipse - help? + Comet Hi all, I have learned of a very interesting proposal to observe the next Total Solar Eclipse, on 4 December, from Mozambique, and to do a worthwhile project while there. As many of you know, the track of this eclipse crosses Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, and ends in Australia just after sunset. Many British & Irish observers are planning to observe from Zimbabwe, South Africa or Australia, if only because they speak English there. But the track also crosses Mozambique, where in fact the duration is longest on land, and the weather prospects there are about the same as South Africa. (The best weather prospects are in Australia, but the sun's altitude there is very low, and the eclipse duration is very short.) So Mozambique has a lot going for it in this respect. It's also a lot more peaceful at present than Zimbabwe, or many parts of South Africa! Xanda Monteiro is Mozambiquan/Portuguese, currently working in Dublin. She's an artist, writer, photographer & film maker, and plans to return to Mozambique to photograph & film the eclipse from an artistic as well as scientific point of view: she already has taken photos of the last eclipse. The following is only a very brief summary of her lengthy & detailed proposals, and you should contact her for more details if you are interested, or think you could help:- She will be mounting a major exhibition based on the last, and this, eclipse (if successful), at the big astronomy meeting in Dublin next spring. One of her aims on the planned trip is to build a small 'village' for the observations, and then hand it over to the local people for their continued use so that they continue to get some benefit after the eclipse is over, and all the 'rich westerners' have gone home again. She is negotiating with various Ministries in Mozambique (Tourism, etc) regarding this. She also hopes to provide an 'educational' service to the local people on astronomy / eclipse while the group is there. Some English is spoken there, and translators should be available where required. She is seeking help from the astronomical community in a number of ways: 1. Anyone wanting to observe the eclipse, but without any firm plans yet, should consider going on the proposed trip, both to observe, and to assist. Some financial assistance with transport to Mozambique, accommodation etc may be available - particularly if lots of people help re the other points below! 2. Any publicity that you can give, including passing on this or other details, would be very welcome. 3. Can you give any financial support? 4. Can you suggest any other sources of finance or help in kind, e.g. travel, insurance, equipment, film stock, printing, other publicity etc? 5. Can you, or your Club or Society, provide any letters of support - particularly if you are a professional astronomer? Prof Tom Ray of DIAS has already done so; support from other prominent professionals would be very useful. 6. Can you lobby any infuential people in the Irish Government to provide backing in any form, or source EU funding, etc? 7. Can you help in any other way, e.g. legal or financial or accounting advice? Since time is short, please do anything you can ASAP! I hope that's a reasonable summary of her very extensive plans: if you would like more information please email her at xandaone@eircom.net She has been having some problems with email, so if you have trouble getting through you can ring her on Dublin 283 5432, or write to her at 10 Maretimo Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin. This seems to be a very worthwhile project, and I hope you will all help in any way you can. BTW, there's a new comet on the way: it should reach almost 6th magnitude later this month, but it will always be fairly low in the dawn sky: more details as soon as there's a better set of elements available. It's called C/2002 O6, and was discovered by Masayuki Suzuki from SOHO images. Preliminary elements are: T 2002 Sept. 9.418 TT q 0.49467 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 78.703 +0.418803 -0.807890 Node 330.959 -0.011376 +0.451899 e 1.0 Incl. 58.666 +0.908006 +0.378288 Terry Moseley
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