the longest annular eclipse

[neufer]

<<On January 15, 2010, the Moon passed between the Earth and the Sun. As the Moon blocked just the central portion of the Sun, people looking skyward would have seen a fiery ring around the Moon’s perimeter, what is known as an annular eclipse. Looking down from space at 1:15 p.m. Calcutta time (7:45 UTC) on January 15, 2010, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite saw the Moon's shadow falling on India and the Bay of Bengal.

The shadow spanned a north-south distance of about 300 kilometers (185 miles) on the surface, with the darkest part near the mid-point of the span. Even in the darkest part of the shadow, clouds are so reflective that the small amount of sunlight escaping around the edge of the moon’s disk is enough to illuminate them for MODIS’ view. Farther north in India, closer to the shadow’s edge, the surface appears tea-colored. A white line delineates the coastline.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/S ... l=20100115

The shadow followed a roughly west-to-east arc from central Africa to eastern China. At the height of the eclipse, which occurred over the Indian Ocean, the complete disk of the moon was visible against the Sun for 11 minutes and 8 seconds, making this event the longest annular eclipse anticipated for the next millennium.>>

[geckzilla]

The ocean, the clouds, and all the people on the other side of the planet get the good eclipses. When's the next eclipse that I'll get to see, neufer?

[neufer]

The ocean, the clouds, and all the people on the other side of the planet get the good eclipses.
When's the next eclipse that I'll get to see, neufer?

Let's see...you live "where you don't belong."
That could be almost anywhere.

Annular eclipse May 20, 2012:

[geckzilla]

Well, you are good at guessing! 2017 looks like a good one.

[bystander]

Yeah, I think Art is our resident psychic (or is that psychotic), (Eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon (2010 Jan 18)). But sometimes I think he's a bit like Nostradamus, make enough predictions and a few of them are bound to come true.

[neufer]

Yeah, I think Art is our resident psychic (or is that psychotic), (Eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon (2010 Jan 18)). But sometimes I think he's a bit like Nostradamus, make enough predictions and a few of them are bound to come true.

Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between APOD events and Neufer's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Neufer's quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any APOD event in advance.