E' stata dura, ma sono riuscito to see the ' partial eclipse of the Sun! Here is a brief summary of the facts of that eventful morning ...
wake up at 7, I open a window and see that the sky is completely covered. I prepare to leave anyway, because after the eclipse should I go to the office in Busto Arsizio. At home, however, there is something wrong: the internal temperature is +14 ° C! The boiler has been blocked, this very morning!
are the 7.20, I go out on the balcony and saw that the water pressure has dropped to almost zero. The increase, therefore, I turn off and on again, but none of it. Now I try the manual and the study with a torch tutte pur di riuscire a resettarla. Nel frattempo mi avvedo che verso l'orizzonte sud-est c'è una fascia di cielo rosato, anche se non del tutto limpido. Devo assolutamente far ripartire il riscaldamento prima dell'alba!
Dopo cinque o sei tentativi, finalmente la caldaia si resetta e riparte. A questo punto posso uscire e tentare di raggiungere un sito che già da tempo avevo individuato, tra Santhià e Vettigné, in mezzo alle risaie e con visuale ottima verso il punto dove sorgerà il Sole. Parto una prima volta, ma per raggiungere il sito devo incrociare la linea ferroviaria. Sono le 7.55, all'alba manca un quarto d'ora. Passaggio a livello chiuso! Non attendo e faccio inversione, per scovare un another site, a short distance from the road to San Germano Vercelli, next to a smoldering pile of manure (bleah!). The fields all around opportunity to offer some shots . Tinge of red rays from below the clouds, seems to be the prelude to a great show, at least the dawn ...
But the Sun does not see you! The clouds quickly closed and the only minimum gash in that direction does not correspond to the position of the Sun What to do? Meanwhile back home (8:35) to assess the situation, to hear via MSN, Skype and Facebook if the weather is better elsewhere, but also to examine the weather images. Unfortunately it seems bad everywhere, at least in areas reach. I decide to wait until the hour of maximum (9.10) at home, in the hope of an improvement, but the time it never gets better. It then runs at about 9.15, to reach the office ...
Going to Vercelli I realize that there are areas of the sky more clear, though cloudy, south-east. I decide to risk it, then take the road to Alessandria and Casale Monferrato, but they too point to the south. A Stroppiana turns south-east, towards Voghera, pitch and within the Sesia in Lombardy and Lomellina. Are between 9.45 am and I am in Bremen and the clove Sartirana when the sun makes its way through the clouds. I stop immediately on a pitch and taking pictures with the Canon 500D and 300mm, the first freehand, so stand up . It is best at the beginning of this post, always produced by hand.
time a burst of ten shots and the sun is hiding again. But now it's almost 10 and the fraction of the Sun covered by the moon decreases rapidly. It is not worth continuing in the hunt ... A Sartirana decided bend to the north, towards Mortara, Vigevano, Abbiategrasso, Magenta, and finally to bust, where he arrived for the 11.
Someone asked me if it was worth to add another 70 km to 160, which I do every day to and from work. The answer is not so much in having whether or not the souvenir photo of a beautiful astronomical event, the important thing is, I think, the perseverance that he fought against the clouds and bad luck, and after all the awareness of having done a little fun, not every day. Different experience, remember that the next eclipse very happy ...
Some statistics: that of yesterday is the 9th solar eclipse I see a streak that began in May 1994. Since then I have not a failure: six partial and two total (Austria and Argentina ), a ring (Spain).
We also see more photos of the eclipse: the gallery on Universe Today, a beautiful picture about LPOD , pictures of his Stefano De Rosa, the recovery of webcam Nico Loney, pictures taken by the Geophysical Center Prealpino of Varese, and of course the one on SpaceWeather .
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