Jul 31
The early morning of July 22 found me in Jinshanwei, southwest of Shanghai, hoping to see the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st Century. I was there as part of a tour sponsored by the Planetary Society. (Jinshanwei, also known as Shanghai Beach, is actually within the city limits of Shanghai, although more than 60km from the city center.) The weather was quite murky, and though the clouds briefly thinned enough for us to see the partially eclipsed Sun from time to time, they closed in again so that we were denied any view of the totally eclipsed Sun in the otherwise dramatic midmorning darkness.
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