OK City

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Frank

Nearing OK City – more than 1/2 of the way there. Weather forecast for Gallup area on Sunday still looks great.

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Underway

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Frank

Departed Indianapolis about 1800 EDT – nearing Effingham, IL now.

Online with the laptop via iPad 3, Verizon, and tethering. Very stable connection on I-70.

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Weather Update

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Frank

Looking better for Gallup, NM area!

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Weather

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Frank

Researching long range forecasts would seem to indicate that the area just east of Reno, NV may prove to be a better choice. Still plan to head for NM for now. There will be enough time to abandon NM and head for Reno if Wx goes bad in NM.

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Eclipse Times

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Frank

The eclipse in Indianapolis will be only a partial eclipse beginning almost at sunset.  The eclipse begins at 8:24 PM EDT and the sun sets at 8:56 PM EDT.

The eclipse will begin for us at about 8:28 EDT.  The midpoint of the annular portion of the eclipse will be about 9:36 PM EDT.  The length of the annular portion of the eclipse will be a bit over 4 minutes for us.  I will update these times once our exact location is known, but the variance should be less than 1 minute, unless we must head much farther west.

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Some semi-useful links and information

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Frank

 

Eclipse is over.  We will post a selection of still images later this week. Thanks to all that watched! We may be contacted at frankh (at) iquest.net

 

Site chosen:
35.78214 N, 108.5743W – this is along road BiA-9 a bit east of US 491 and about 1 mile north of the center line.  Eclipse times here are:
Start of partial eclipse:    8:26:53 PM EDT
Start of annular eclipse:  9:33:11 PM EDT
End of annular eclipse:    9:37:39 PM EDT
The sun sets during the partial eclipse about 30 minutes later.
The live video stream will be available no later than 9:10 PM EDT.

 

 

Eclipse Animation

Eclipse Animation (from NASA) - click image for larger version

 

 
We plan to stream the May 20, 2012, annular solar eclipse live from our viewing location in northwestern New Mexico, as long as the weather and mobile networks cooperate. The annular portion of the eclipse will begin just after 9:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time at our location.  An annular solar eclipse is not as exciting as a total eclipse, but still makes for a great holiday!
The top post of this blog contains a number of links to eclipse information and to our live streaming location. Our planned departure time for New Mexico is about 1800 EDT on Tuesday, 15 May.  The expected route to Albuquerque is I-70 to St. Louis, I-44 to Oklahoma City, and I-40 to Albuquerque.
Where are we?This link’s data is updated via APRS, the Automatic Packet Reporting System, when we are in range of an APRS iGate.
HF Operations:  14.310 USB +/-, first 10 minutes of the hour when mobile
Live video: Here is the Ustream link. Ustream functions well, but the free (for me) version may annoy you from time to time with a 15 second ad.  We are NOT live now.
Our planned location is along the red line in the above map north of Gallup.  Cloud cover may cause moves farther west along this line.  The red line is the center of the path of visibility for the annular eclipse.  Locating on or near this line provides the greatest duration of the annular portion of the eclipse, a bit over four minutes for this event.

 

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