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| Dec 3 - Wednesday |
| Arriving in
Hobart, Tasmania - uhm,... what time is it? |
| Dec 2 - Tuesday |
Splendid Night, reporting from the top deck
at midnight
Tasmania! |
| Dec 1 - Monday |
| Nov 30 - Sunday |
| Nov 29 -Saturday
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| Nov 28 -Friday |
changing the course to avoid the storm |
| Nov 27 - Thursday |
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| Nov 26 - Wednesday [ latest pics ] |
bracing for a big storm |
| Nov 25 - Tuesday [ so far no pics ] |
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| Nov 24 - Monday - PES (Post Eclipse Syndrome?) [ latest pics ] |
 so how was this
eclipse?not perfect, but close. Alas, no penguins during totality :-(
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| Nov 23 - Sunday
- Eclipse later today!!!!
[ latest pics ] |
| only 18 more hours to the eclipse 17 hours to the eclipse - weather improving 7:30 UT, just 15 hours from eclipse,
penguins are joining Where will Klipsi be to watch the eclipse?  Near Mimi station. Along the left edge on this map by Fred Espenak/NASA:
Message from Rob Wittenmyer at UCSD:  Attached is a JPG image
(572K) of Antarctica at 11:47 UT today. It is the only pass we
could get that actually covered the eclipse track; this region is a
stretch for the McMurdo receiver to get, and there are often dropouts
at the edge of the pass. Darker areas are clear or thin clouds
(see 66.5S 89E), bright white is cloud tops. Latitude/longitude
lines are at 1 degree intervals.
Hope this helps a bit though things don't look too good for eclipse weather based on this image. Will grab the umbral shadow passage images (if we get any) probably Monday morning here; the guys at McMurdo have the eclipse passes all set up in a protected (non-overwritten) directory. Klipsi's SMS Sunday, November 23, 2003 2:58 PM : CLOUDED OUT .SAW SOME CORONA THRU CLNUD Sunday, November 23, 2003 3:12 PM NOT CLOUDED OUT BUT SOME CLOUDS AT SUN. GREAT DARK SKY. SOME CORONA |
| Nov 22 - Saturday |
getting close to eclipse observation point
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| Nov 21 - Friday |
part 1 - avoiding B-15-D, huge iceberg part 2
 Project Dogwaffle
and The Gathering of the Emperors - the ultimate Art Event.Only a few more days to the solar eclipse - did you already submit your images to the Paint-a-Penguin contest? White Continent - Sudden Darkness - What will penguins do when it suddenly gets dark in the land of eternal daylight? paint it, sketch it, sponge dab it, draw it, model it, animate it,.... imagine it, share it! |
| Nov
20 -
Thursday
[ today's
pics ] |
part1 - we
have
arrived at Davis Stationpart2 - walking on Antarctica, Yeeha! only 4
more
days to the eclipse!!! Interested in 3D modeling an iceberg? a dinosaur? a penguin? Here are some free or cheap 3D modeling tools to try and here are some more |
| Nov 19 - Wednesday,
Blizzard |
 part 1 - Blizzard part 2 - 12 miles from coastline part 3 - afternoon, blue iceberg, lots of penguins
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| Nov 18 - Tuesday, even
colder |
breaking through the (ant)arctic circle only 100 miles away from the costline of
Antarctica |
| Nov 17 - Monday,
colder, large
icebergs |
received SMS Sunday, November 16, 2003
9:11 PM:
 part 1 -
digging deeper into the icepart 2 -
soooo windy |
| Nov 16 - cold, icebergs coming! |
| leaving Heard island, heading further South,
no ice yetif you're in Australia: Klipsi will
show video Dec 5 at Wyndham Estate in Hunter Valley Australia at www.wyndhamestate.com.au
(bad satellite connection) We have reached drifting icebergsshortcut to pictures here
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| Nov 15 - reaching
Heard and McDonald Islands |
 Almost there, Heard Island coming up.
Icebergs soon? |
| Nov 14 - Friday - good bye Kerguelen, hello
stormy seas |
SMS messages:
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| Nov 13 - Thursday |
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part 1 - arriving at Kerguelen Islandpart 2 -
walking on Kerguelen Islandpart3 -
weather changing, rain in a few hours? |
| Nov 12 - Wednesday -
fog |
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| Nov 11 - Tuesday -
beyond Crozet island |
| we
have left the island - au revoir les Crozets [ pics ] [ top ]
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| Nov
10 - Monday - where's Klipsi? |
- Monday AM . Arrived
Crozet island . get ready 2 dance wiz pinguins. long
live the King!addendum:
Orca!guys? where's my evac helicopter?[ top
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| Nov
9 - Sunday |
- THIS MORNING WE ARE 44S & 45E .
NO (LUNAR) ECLIPSE , OVERCAST . NEW TIMING FOR CROZET SHOULD ARRIVE
MONDAY 6AM LOCAL, 0200 UT.- We plan 2 land on possession island . lots of King pinguins there - SOLAR eclipse will be near Mirmy station about 66S 93E no birds yet[ top
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| Nov
8 - is it Saturday or Friday today? |
- morning sky clouds.
gentle surf. light rolling. waiting 4 tomorrow eclipse of the Moon
- This a.m. position was about 42 South 38 East . sailing ESE to Crozet Islands - 09.35 UT update. half past noon. lunch ... sky overcast , light drizzle. - 12.50 UT update. blue clear sky - 05.30PM overcast clouds - Will send some images tomorrow. incl 2 folks from websites: Ichikawa of www.live-eclipse.org and Babak of www.shadow-chasers.net - Latest news. we may arrive at Crozet islands sunday evening. and, lunar eclipse live www.universetoday.com listen
to Klipsi's Iridium phone report - is
it Saturday or Friday today? [ top
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| Nov 7 - calmer seas |
satellite phone voice recordings from today Nov 7 : (your browser will neeed Flash player to hear it)
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| Nov 6 - left Port Elizabeth, first day at
sea |
| transcript: "Hoi Philip this is Oliboli, I hope you
hear me, I hope you hear me,
this is Nov the 6 ???? Noon ... we left yesterday, from
Port
Elizabeth,... and er ... it's not stormy weather but quite stormy
(rough) seas, we have big waves and luckily we're not sick (?)
yet
we're actualy still alive :-)
the food on the ship is excellent and I did get some nice pictures of waves ... ???? .... so not much to say than we're just waiting and dealing with anti-motion sickness pills and excellent food. Klipsi out " [ top
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| over
to Klipsi |
Sudden
Darkness : Paint-a-Penguin |
moving
to Mars ? Univelt |
3D
for all : eovia |
uvmaps
for 3D ? ultimate unwrap |
Brilliant
Creations 3D book: : Modeling Digital Dinosaurs |
more
3D dinosaurs? monsters4u.com |
paint
without
the mess : Project Dogwaffle |
