----------------------------------- Alex Gaina 18 Dec 2011 19:04 Abstract English ----------------------------------- Since nobody sent me a reply to this post I shall translate the informations about the eclipse from the source The eclipse will be visible from ours country. The eclipse will be visible also from Europe, Asia, Africa (excepted for the West Africa), Australia, North America, Groenland, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Arctic Ocean. The visibility of the Eclipse from the Earth: Phases Legal Time Magnitude Entrance to Penumbra 13:33:30 Entrance to Umbra 14:45:40 Maximal Phase 16:31:50 1,106 Escape from Umbra 18:18:00 Escape from Penumbra 19:30:00 Bibliography: 1) Anuarul Astronomic Român, 2011, Published by Editura Academiei Române, Bucureşti, 2011, p. 89 I would like to add that the meteorology has a very important impact on astronomy. Ours insuccess is explained by bad weather. It is the second my insuccess in order to observe eclipses during December Month in Moldova. The previous one was aboout 10 years ago. Then, Let us study toghether meteorology. It is not excluded, that one of the best ours friends in this area could be Les Cowley, which is the author of one of very fine sites and a book in the area of Atmospheric Optics. The web address of the site is: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/ while just recently Les sent me an invitation to became His friend at Linkedln. I have decided just to add here his letter of thanks in connection with sending him some of my photographs few years ago. I will not continue here this subject, but I would like to add, that atmospheric optics is one of the Best areas in science for few reasons: 1) It is beautifull 2) It is able to help us to explain a number (if not all) of misterious events, sometimes associated by UFO. The text of the correspondence and the e-mail by Les is: atoptics@gmail.com Dear Alexei, Grates and thanks for very nice site! I have few comments to yours very useful work. 1. There is a mention of a glory by Thomas de Quincey (in de Suspiria de Profundis - in The Posthumous works of Th. de Quincey, vol. 1, Ed. A.H. Lapp (Japp) -London, 1891. I have no the exact text by de Quincey, which I have found in the literature. It will be interesting for me to read that text in any place, i.e. on yours site, or as a copy from his writing. 2. I do not understand, why you write that the halo http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circmoon.htm is 22 Deg, when the moon's disk radio is 0,5 Deg? It could be about 3,5 or 4 Deg ? In that image the moon is badly over-exposed and the light disk does not represent the moon's diameter. The disk of light in that image is several degrees across. 3. Could I suggest you, that such images as http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/glory.htm explains the glories round the head of Christ? The nimbus or halo around Christian figures seems to have first appeared in the 5th Century and those in Ravenna are fine examples. Earlier there was a prohibition on representations. Halos are not exclusive to Christian art and some appear earlier than the Christian era. I emphasise that I am no expert in these matters. My purely personal opinion is that these representations are not related to specific atmospheric phenomena. 3.You are welcome to read an observation of a halo of the airship shadow by me at the finish of the http://upmsu.phys.msu.ru/1977/gaina/Gaina.htm. It is in English. Thank you. These wonderful sightings like yours are much better when seen 'live' than in photographs. I well remember a glory around an aircraft shadow as I travelled once from Helsinki to Copenhagen. It had a delicacy and 3-4 rings which shimmered and sparkled in a way that photographs never capture. The rings swelled and then contracted as clouds of different droplet size were encountered. My dictionary gives 'siyannie' (sorry, I do not have Cyrillic text on this PC) as brightness (svetl..?) or the aurora. I used the Landau and Lifshitz text a long time ago (In English) but do not recall the reference. Perhaps they were referring to the glory backscattering phenomena in semi-classical quantum treatments of atomic scattering. Thanks for writing, With kind regards, Les