Philip Staiger project
leader
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URL:
http://www.staigerland.com
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Olivier
Staiger eclipse expert, globetrotter
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lives in Geneva,
Switzerland
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Eclipse Photographer for Keystone
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works at Prestige Rent-A-Car
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globetrotter, eclipse veteran
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definitively and helplessly 'hooked' on eclipses. Will go anywhere to
view
even a partial eclipse
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educational background includes swiss hotel management school, travel,
tourism
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High Moon, Just View It!
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publications
in
Astronomy magazine, newspapers, APOD.
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will be on the FASCINATION
from Carnival Cruise, near
Aruba.
Satellite uplink for dialin internet access provided by Carnival Cruise
Lines.
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URL: http://eclipse.span.ch |
John
Laborde
eclipse veteran, observer
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works at Digital, formerly Megatek Corp.
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long-time eclipse veteran
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will be on cruise ship near Antigua or on island of Antigua
during eclipse
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Samples of past eclipses:(check out these prominences! Wow!):
  
(copyright 1997 John Laborde - all rights
reserved)
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Drew
Strakele technical consultant
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lives in Carlsbad,
California
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Met Philip over NetMeeting; decided that this project is too much fun
not
to participate :-)
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 Email:
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James Lambert junior member,
eclipse
veteran and observer
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David Trowbridge eclipse
observer
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works at Microsoft on the Encarta
team
 Eclipse
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will be in Antigua
for eclipse, with internet access provided by Cable
and Wireless. If you wish to learn more about Antigua and Barbados,
here's a place
to start,
with many links.
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hopes to provide eclipse coverage via telescope, using video camera
with
adapter from Ken-A-Vision
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viewed October 24, 1995 eclipse from Sariska,
India
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took this photo of the February 1979 eclipse in Goldendale,
Washington:
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check his eclipse
animation with sounds!
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URL:
http://www.seanet.com/~davidtro/
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Bill
Saslow
Javascript/Multimedia Guru
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 Email:
bigbear01@ids.netURL: http://users.ids.net/~bigbear/ |
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Jeffrey
R. Charles - technical consultant, eclipse
veteran
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Plans to view the eclipse from Venezuela
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Lives in Pasadena,
California
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Background: Conceptual
optical
instrumentation design.
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Owns and operates Versacorp, a
supplier
of consulting services, new technology, and optical
instrumentation.
Formerly worked at the Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory as an engineer.
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Publications in JPL/NASA conference proceedings, Riverside
Telescope Makers Conference proceedings, Astronomy
Magazine, various newspapers, catalogs, brochures, and two web
sites:
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Currently authoring an astrophotography book for Springer-Verlag.
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Inventor of many optical innovative systems, including the
multi-function
DiaGuider
and VersAgonal telescope flip mirror accessories; the first
telescope
guiders with tilting, sliding, and "spear prism" reflectors; the
Cassegrain
axial
strut wide angle panoramic capture reflector, the axial strut all-sky
reflector, and the OmniLens
full sphere imaging system.
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Holds seven U.S. patents and has two more patents pending.
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Specialize in automated 360 degree panoramic imaging at total solar
eclipses.
Check out this panorama
of the lunar umbra, taken 20 seconds before totality at the July
1991
total solar eclipse
in Mazatlan
Mexico!
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Jeffrey's cat 'Moses' seen through
fisheye
URL: http://www.versacorp.com
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Juan
Carlos
Casado - astro-photographer, teacher
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Juan Carlos is a teacher, lives in San
Sebastian, Spain, currently specializing in teaching astronomy,
attending
national university
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has many years of experience in aesthetic astrophotography
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Contributes to "Tribuna
de
Astronomia", famous in Spain and parts of South America
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His observation site will be in the peninsula of
Paraguaná,
Venezuela
(another
map
courtesy of Lonely Planet),
right before Aruba/Curacao
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Juan Carlos had numerous publications in Astronomy Picture of
the Day (APOD),
including
these recent ones:
ap971125.html
ap971201.html
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URL: http://www.san-sebastian.com/jcasado(English
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Dale
Ireland,
astro- and nature photographer,
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web whizzard, check his web cam too
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Planet Dale Homepage
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lives in Silverdale,
Washington State
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excellent eclipse
photos
and movies
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and where will Dale be during the eclipse? He will be travelling with
Philip,
Olivier and Fred Espenak (NASA GSFC) on the FASCINATION from Carnival
Cruise,
probably observing from Aruba.
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Dale has just been awarded the Webweaver pick for the month of January
1998 by Astronomy Magazine! Congratulations, Dale!
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URL: http://www.drdale.com/index.htm |
Deborah Scherrer
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 URL:
http://quake.stanford.edu/~deborah/deborah.html |
Mike Rushford
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Lives in Livermore,
California
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Mike is a physicist at Lawrence
Livermore
National Laboratory and specializes in optics
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Creator of Eyes on the
Skies,
a web page which allows you to view the Sun through an H-alpha filter -
live!
(picture courtesy of Big Bear Solar
observatory)
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Will watch the eclipse from a cruise ship, CUNARD's
Vistafjord, between the Galapagos isles and Panama, at exactly
Lattitude: 4:02:54 (North)
and
Longitude: 83:56:48 (West of Greenwich)
click here
for another map, courtesy of Fourmilab
This is where the totality will last the longest (about 4 minutes).
This
cruise is hosted by Sky&Telescope.
They also organize other
cruises in the Caribbean.
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URL: http://www.hooked.net/~tvs/eyes/
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Arnaldo Arnal & Andres Valencia
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URL: (for Andres) http://www.true.net/~avalencia
ARVAL Observatory: http://www.arval.org.ve
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BHS - Brunswick Highschool, OHIO
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This is a team of 32 students and teachers from the FIELD STUDIES -
Brunswick
High School, Brunswick, OHIO, led by Ron Fabick
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the team is making a trip to the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonnaire, Curacao)
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they will observe the eclipse from CURACAO
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Their primary goal is to work out a live transmission back to their
school
by way of the internet
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Primary contact is Ron Fabick, Field Studies Coordinator
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Contact: Ron Fabick
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Bernie Verreau
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Check my Eclipse Gallery at http://www.netcom.com/~perigee
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will watch the eclipse from the Holland/America cruise ship,
Statendam,
on or near Curaçao.
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his eclipse photos have been published in Astronomy magazines, used in
planetarium shows and displayed at the Smithsonian.
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Bernie lives in Redwood
City,
California and is UNIX/NT support engineer for chip design.
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has seen about a dozen of eclipses so far, and a cumulative total of
about
45 minutes of totality! (including two airborn expeditions)
Tim Priddy
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works with Bernie at Intel and will accompany him for this
eclipse
to Curaçao
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lives in Santa Clara,
California
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URL: http://www.netcom.com/~perigee
URL: http://pw1.netcom.com/~tpriddy/meettim.html
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Joseph P. Kane
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will observe the eclipse from Panama
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lives in Panama City, moving to Ft. Clayton, Panama
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Will watch the eclipse from Jaque, close to the Pacific coast.
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Rich and Jerry Chamberlin
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founders of Netlab, a non-profit
organization
- The Net Lab year 2000 and beyond Internet Education is Science
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provide tech support, mirror sites, and more
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URL: http://www.netlab.org:8888
Netlab: http://www.netlab.org
Rich: http://www.sound.net/~richc/
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Michael J. Coulombe
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is in charge of the hardware that runs the mirror site at Univ. Mass.
Lowell
(http://sunmil1.uml.edu/eclipse/index.html)
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Radar Systems Designer
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Submillimeter-Wave Technology Lab "stl.uml.edu"
175 Cabot St.
Lowell Ma 01854
- We design hardware in the 100 GHZ to 3000 GHz range which
is used for remote
sensing, radio astronomy, radar, and radar modeling.
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Bob Yen
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Lives in Pasadena
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will see the eclipse from Curaçao
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will have eclipse images and quicktime movies shortly after the event
on
E-day
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some of Bob's previous eclipses:
 
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URL: http://www.comet-track.com |
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