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Eclipse Fever In Indian Village - UPDATES

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« on: July 21, 2009, 08:08:14 pm »










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The sun's disappearing act attracts so-called eclipse tourists, who travel the world to watch solar eclipses which happen between two and five times a year, though total solar eclipses are less frequent.

Rollie Anderson, a retired actuary from St. Louis, Missouri, is in China now to watch his 14th eclipse.

"The cosmic coincidence that the sun and moon both appear in the sky as the same size, and then, on top of that, they line up every now and again. … Just the very idea of that is pretty mind-blowing," he said.

"As you get to the last several minutes before totality, that's when your eyes actually start noticing things getting dark around you, and you can feel the air cooling," he said. "It gets really dark and totality appears, and that's when it gets most spectacular."

"You see a black hole in the sky where the sun used be, and if there are birds around, they may stop chirping, because they think it's night."

Chasing eclipses has also allowed Anderson and his wife to see the world.

"It's kind of an excuse to see whatever the part of the world the eclipse happens to be in."
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