Solar Eclipse 2001
After I saw a rainy eclipse in August 1999 I thought about travelling to the next total solar eclipse which occured on June 21st 2001. This eclipse happend over southern Africa during the dry season. Therefore I expected good weather prospects watching the eclipse. Fortunately the weather was really good and we could see the eclipse.
As you can see on the image the moon shadow touched the earth over the Atlantic Ocean, crossing Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and left the surface somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Although strange things happend in Zimbabwe in 2000 I planned a
trip to the solar eclipse watching it in Zimbabwe due to the better infrastructure and more interesting
places. We started on June 13th from Frankfurt via Johannesburg to Victoria
Falls / Zimbabwe. |
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