Well, you're right that the article says it's seen in Asia, but I have the software package Starry Night Pro and it looks like it almost misses the Earth all together. It looked to me that only Russia and Alaska will notice it.

Those more fimaliar with how to use Starry Night probably know of a better way to see the eclipse info, but I put myself on the Sun, looked at Earth, changed the date and time, and played it fast-forward.

I can email you a MOV file I created of it if you're interested. It's 1.6 MB. There is a way in Starry Night to remove the clouds on Earth, but I couldn't find the option. So, it's not great, but still interesting.


>>Hi Hilmar.
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>>Where this eclipse can be seen and time??
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>Mainly in Asia.
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>>What you mean it ends the day before it starts??
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>It starts on Thursday (local time), and ends on Wednesday (local time).
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>If you convert all date-times to UTC, of course it will end after it starts.
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>See, for example, http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=753&e=10&u=/space/20041008/sc_space/solareclipsetostartthursdayendwednesday
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>Or search news.google.com for more articles.