Solar eclipse expedition to Yiwu in 2008

Observation point: 43゜15'27.2" N ,94゜44'44.7" E , Altitude1614m.East of Tiwu town outside Xinjiang Chaina

The corona ,left-diagonally-upside had three streams and three radius,right-diagonally-downside had tow stream and tow radius. One prominence had right side and the chromosphere had uper after first umbra ,I recoganize from HD video both. Shadow Bands couldn't obseve. Pole was right-diagonally-upside.

The shadow considered from the sun of altitude 19.2degree .
  We moved to east after first penumbra. Usually thnking the first umbra must be late.But start first 2.5seconds and the second umbra too. These result ware from my computer countdown by eclipse navigater softwear. This softwear set our hotel point. That was 43゚15’02.7”N,94゚41'24.1"E .Mooved to 3'20.6" east, 5.5" north. For the compuer obsevation point was firster than 1.3second .So I culculated at hotel point changing longitude to obseved opint then early 0.3seconds. Next changing latitude then 1.1second earlyar ,changing only 5.5" .These result showed very long shadow toward center. A height 19.2 degree sun made long shadow I think to myself. At time was defferent 0.8second to culculate.It was for the luner limb profile. The shadow came from north-north-west.

Lack datas of thermo-hygrometer beyond my comprehension.
  At the rehearsal the datas can uptarte to my computer as usual. I used eclipse day same rehearsal. Although datas recorded, I didn't update to my computer then it showed "No day and time datas". I saved datas for CSV format. I checked that datas .Date start 1 Juanuary 1985 as reset. If somethng come off batterys then record interval do one munite. But that interval 2 seconds same set up. At back my home I tried to reappear test same time and same my computer. But evrything ware noproblem. Why at eclipse not records only date. That was unsolved broblem.

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I couldn’t understand to move clouds. Tow days ago we arrived at Yiwu and our hotel where hang out the washing to dry were observe preset area .The day Before I set my equatorial telescope and I started a thermo-hygrometer as the rehearsal .But after first penumbra contact I noticed big cloud toward first umbra point .We moved to outside town between clouds. The first umbra contact time was earlier about tow second from count down of my computer .Still more the sun covered very thin cloud. We noticed prefect corona before 20 seconds from the second umbra for throughout its. The sun clouds sometimes before about 40 minutes of the second penumbra, before about 20 minutes it gone into clouds.

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