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Total Solar Eclipse in Australia & New Zealand 2012
Jerry Arsoba and Tomasz Czarnecki invite you on a photography tour across Australia & New Zealand with observations of the Total Solar Eclipse near Cairns. During this amazing tour we shall visit the most spectacular spots of the land down under – both the famous ones such as Uluru and Rotorua, as well as some lesser known, yet just as amazing spots that will remaing in your memory for the lifetime. Your guides will be skilled pilots who have axperience both with astronomy and eclipse observations as well as professional photographic background that will help you hone your own photographic workshop while indulging in the spectacular scapes both on land and above heads. Your guides are also english speaking, so don’t worry – you will be able to talk to us 😛
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Annular Solar Eclipse
Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park lies in southwestern part of Utah in USA. In spite of being named ‘canyon’ it’s most famous feature is a huge natural amphiteatre sculpted in the eastern flank of pink, orange and yellow sandston of Paunsaugunt Plateau. Within it tall spires – called hoodoos and reaching up to 60 meters rise. Area has been designated a National Treasure in 1923, and five years later a National Park. It has an area 150 km² and height of 2400 – 2700 m above sea level. Being further away from large cities is much less visited.
Climate
Bryce Canyon N.P. climate is rather temperate and, as compared to other parks in the area, rateher wet – total yearly rainfall averages between 38 up to 46cm. Average minimum winter temperatures fall to -13ºC in January, while maksimum average temperature in July rise to 28ºC. As for 2012 annular eclipse weather data, we can expect 74% chance of seeing the Sun – average number of partially cloudy sky to clear sky in May is 22 and only nine with full cloud cover. In case weather prospects don’t look good we migh decide to move observation to Zion or Grand Canyon National Parks.
- Pogoda w Bryce, z National Park Service
sources:
National Park Service
Wikipedia
AAA Colorado & Utah Tourbook
National Parks of USA & Canada
2012
Annular Solar Eclipse Expedition – USA 2012
- Join us on the expedition!
Here is our maximum plan – it may be altered by weather, road conditions, or other unforeseen events but we shall try to do our best to get do most of it:
13.05.2012
- (we can assist you in getting a flight ticket to Los Angeles, or you shall get there on your own)
- We meet at the Los Angeles Intl Airport
- next we drive to Sunset Blvd & Hollywood Blvd
- we sleep in Los Angeles – Van Nuys
14.05.2012
- after breakfast we head out to Death Valley National Park
- we start visit in Panamint Springs and drive at slow pace allowing photograpy to Furnace Creek
- after leaving Death Valley we drive to Las Vegas and check-in at Tropicana motel
- depending on our condition, and time spent in Death Valley the rest of the evening we get to party / visit Las Vegas
15.05.2012
- We depart from Las Vegas driving towards Hoover Dam
- After short stop we head out towards Hualapai Hilltop, where we park the cars, get our backpacks and treck for 13 km down to Supai (0,9km elevation drop), the most remote Indian vilalge is USA within Hawasupai Indian Reservation, please note that there is no alcohol allowed so do not bring any
- here we visit the incredible waterfalls: Havasu Falls, Moony Falls, Rock Falls, New Navajo Falls
- we sleep under the open sky of Supai (remeber to bring sleeping bag, the temperature at nigh can drop down to about 12-15deg C.
16.05.2012
- return trek from Supai to Hualapai Hilltop
- we arrive at Barringer Crater a.k.a. – Canyon Diablo Crater, best preserved impact crater on Earth, which has been carved approx 50 000 years ago by an iron meteorite 50 meters in diamater weighing abut 300 000 metric tonnes (most of this mass has been vaporised during antry into the atmosphere and then on impact, still, framents of Canyon Diablo meteorite can be found over large portion of USA).
- we sleep in motel in Winslow
17.05.2012
- driving by Petrified Forest Road we come to Petrified Forest National Park wher we take a stroll among petrified 225 mln years ago (triassic) trees
- we stop at the lookout to view Painted Desert National Park, from where we can enjoy colourfull sights of badlands formed in Chinle rocks, that due to high content of managanium and iron have striking colours
- next stop is Chinle Visitor Center, from where we head out on to South Rim Drive over Canyon de Chelly National Monument
- next we drive to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park where we take a scenic loop across the valley floor until sunset (Monument Valley Scenic Drive)
- after wathcing the sunset we drive to our lodginig in Kanab
18.05.2011
- 2,5 photo tour of Upper Antelope Canyon with an Indian guide
- option – boat tour from Waheap Bay over Lake Powell (Glenn Canyon National Recreation Area) to Antelope Canyon or Lower Antelope Canyon
- option – excurson to Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park
- option – drive to Bryce Canyon National Park to select a spot for an exlipse due in two days
- return to Kanab
19.05.2012
- visit to Zion National Park, on the way we pass unusual rock formations such as Checkerboard Mesa
- in Zion we will go into the Narrows (if the water level permits, there is wading here so take appropraite shoes) Zion canyon
- in the afternoon we drive to North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, walk out to Angel Point, and witness the sunset over Grand Canyon
- return to Kanab
20.05.2012
- we arrive in Bryce Canyon National Park,
- suggested trail is Fairyland Loop (13km, elevation difference 700m) or other trails
- after dinner we take to Rim Trail,to the slected two days earlier location (*or other site, if we decide that Bryce is not the best place, or the weather conditions are bad)17:22:58 Start of the partial eclipse
18:31:29 Start of the annular phase
18:33:39 Maksimum annular eclipse (length of the annular eclipse 4’33”; az 287, altidute 11 deg)
18:35:50 End of the annular phase
19:36:41 End of the partial eclipse after sunset although refraction may bring the Sun up just enough to make it visible (Sun will be 1 deg under horizon after 19:28 sunset) - lodging in Escalante
21.05.2012
- We take Hole-in-the-Rock Trail towards Devil’s Garden
- walking from Harris Wash we climn into Zebra Slot Canyon and Tunel Slot (approx 6km, remember to carry wrinking water)
- visit to Devil’s Garden
- the we head out to Capitol Reef National Park and in Boulder turn into Burr Trail Road
- depending on time after Burr Trail Switchbacks we visit Surprise Canyon, or drive directly north along Notom Bullfrog Wash
- after leaving Capitol Reef N.P. we head to Deaad Horse Point State Park, or Moab
22.05.2012
- from 600m high mesa of Dead Horse Point we watch sunrise over Colorado in Canyonlands National Park
- visit to Arches National Park, if we are up to three hours drive by night to Richfield we can stay here untill sunset
23.05.2012
- transfer to Mamoth Lakes in California
24.05.2012
- visit to Mono Lake, canoe guided tour of the lake, afterwards visit to South Tufa Area. Mono Lake is a highy unusuall alkaline and toxic lake where strange forms of bacteria were found by NASA in search for extremofile life forms
- transfer to Yosemite National Park. If possible via Tioga Pass road
25.05.2012
- visit to Yosemite National Park:
- Yosemite falls
- El Capitan
- Mariposa Grove
26.05.2012
- we arrive in San Francisco or Los Angeles, end of the trip
Locations
Capitol Reef National Park
Capitol Reef National Park is lies in south-central Utah. It preserves colorful canyons, buttes and monotliths along 120km long up-thrust called the Waterpocket Fold extending from Lake Powell northwest to Thousand Lake Mountain. Thus the park while quite long – actually about 160km long, is at the same time narrow – and most visitors pass through it briefly driving by State Route 24 leading through Freemont River Canyon. Much better appreciation for variety of Park’s wonders can be gleaned from Burr Trail, which is a backcaountyr road, only partially paved, leading into the park from Boulder, down the fold on a series of switchbacks, and then north, along Waterpocket Fold to SR24.
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