Had an amazing trip, which involved several days of travel through hundreds of miles of spectacular sand dunes in four-wheel drive vehicles operated by impressive Tuareg drivers (no camels). This put me and the group I was traveling with somewhere in between Dirkou and Bilma, about at the center of the shadow seen in this picture:
At some point I may post some links to other pictures. In a day or so after I deal with a couple hundred e-mails we’ll return to your regularly scheduled programming.
Update: Fred Bruenjes was at the same eclipse camp in Niger, and has a report on the eclipse here. He also tells about traveling to the site, taking a more leisurely route than the one taken by the group I was with.
Welcome back!
Welcome back, Peter. In what way were the Tuareg drivers impressive? Just curious.
welcome back.
Welcome back.:)
any of them drivers wearing blue mani-folds?
Hi Peter,
I am green with envy. As an amateur astronomer who has never experienced a total eclipse in his life, I ache a lot by knowing I could have been there myself… And wasn’t.
I hope you can post a few picture.
Welcome back!
T.
My friend snapped a sweet picture in the country of Georgia of the eclipse…
¿Already back from Africa? This modern world spins really fast.
Sounds like fun…
Welcome back.
welcome back!
“It is not even wrong.” – Wolfgang Pauli
Wow. What a picture.
You can appreciate why ancient people were scared to death of eclipses.
Did you remember to sacrifice a few virgins to appease the sky gods?
Did you see shadow bands? Strangest phenomenon I’ve ever seen…
-drl
Way cool, those prominences and sunspots…envy!
Glad to have you back, I missed reading your postings. While you were gone, I had an insight: M-Theory really stands for Motl-Theory which is why he defends M-T.
A very welcome back Peter. I too missed your postings. What do you think of ‘t Hooft’s latest on his attempt to ovrthrow quantum weirdness?
Sounds like a stunning and memorable vacation. I can only echo what the others have said: very glad to have you back.
Which ancient people were scared of solar eclipses?
According to Tin Tin, the Maya were.
Tin Tin dixit
the authority in all matters
Peter , welcome back. Have you seen this
What kind of impact this will have on high energy physics in the future?