On Wednesday, 29th March 2006, the shadow of the Moon will sweep a band starting from Brazil, through Atlantic Ocean, Gold Coast of Africa, Saharan Desert, Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, Black Sea, Georgia, Russian Federation, northern shores of Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan; ending in Mongolia. The duration of totality will be less than 2 minutes near the sunrise and sunset limits, but will be as long as 4 minutes and 7 seconds in Libya, at the moment of greatest eclipse. The path of totality will be 180 kilometers wide at that moment.

The partial phases will be witnessed by all of Europe.

http://tinypic.com/1pxnjc

I have a map aswell showing the best places to see totality. Note that it would only be a partial eclipse from anywhere west of Kalkan or east of Alanya.
Contact me if you would like the map as it is too big to post on here.

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Tell him he wont get another chance to see one. There isnt one due in the UK for another 200 years or so.

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It's still over a year away yet I still can't wait. Hope I'll get time off to go, or won't be sent on some business trip.

weigh it up against it being a once in a lifetime chance I would do a sicky and go.

I'm afraid that I might be deported to Moscow like I might be at the end of this month.

What you want to go there for? who you working for these days any way? are you CIA or NSA?

If I worked for either of them, at least I wouldn't have to worry about student loans and my desk wouldn't be crawling with ants.

Is that the best cover story you could come up with?

bla bla bla...I'm going to another travel convention. That is, if my boss remembers to put my visa app through.