Just a quick message now we are back in Hangzhou after a very challenging eclipse! Lots of rain, clouds and thunderstorms in this part of China but the rain stopped and the cloud thinned enough for us to enjoy a spectacular total eclipse that lasted for nearly 6 minutes. The corona was quite limited in extent by the clouds as you can see from the attached pic. I had chosen a site at a small farm near Daixi at the foot of the Mogan Shan Mountains and the other pic shows the family and the team from the UK.
Everyone had a great time and particularly enjoyed the farm and meeting the people and animals. As far as I can tell very few other people managed to see the eclipse but I had worked hard accumulating weather observations for several years and selected a good area - maybe I still have some of the old magic!!
John Parkinson, July 2009
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