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21st, May, 2012: Observing The Annular Eclipse
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It is The Annular Eclipse this morning. Weather forecast says it will be cloudy and sometimes sunny. The weather chart shows stationary front in the pacific, on south of Japan. So I was anxious on the weather condition. At 5:00 AM, it is nice sky. However at 6:30, on the way to TUAT, gray cloud grew up from south-east sky. Is this bad news? Or good news, indicating that it will be nice later?
7 o’clock, cloud cover rate in the sky is approximately 3-4. I prepared three eye protectors including eclipse glass and two sunglasses that have different darkness to correspond various thickness of cloud. Astrometric telescopes were set. The eclipse is already in progress. The cloud does not disturb our observation. Double sunglass is sometimes better in accordance with cloud thickness. We were excited. Wind was little bit cool during The Annular Eclipse. Solar flare and sunspots are clear in the screen of telescope. It has just reported that solar activity seems changing and the earth might be cooler.
Gift from the sun is the origin of global nature. We recognized environmental problems are linked with the space. Anyhow, we have to do our best and avoid anthropogenic global warming. (HO)