:: TSE track :: NASA ::

Saros 139 defined.

 

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:: destinations along the path ::

Irkustsk to southern Lake Baikal.

Approximate travel distance (Great circle, one-way): 6x106 metres (3400 nautical miles), or the distance light travels in air in approximately twenty milliseconds.

Hongor (if it is on the path...)

The Caspian Sea

The Black Sea

Mount Shkhara :: 5.068km (16627 feet) tall, 3500 km (1883 nautical miles) distant.

Flight details

Egypt

Alexandria :: 3614 km (1951 nautical miles) distant, sea level.

Libya, Africa :: http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_20060329_pg01.html

Atlantic Ocean, again.

Brazil

Crete, Kriti, again on a boat.

The eclipse track passes directly between Crete and Cyprus before hitting the southern coast of Turkey...

Heraklio: Latitude 38.045º North, longitude 23.757º East. Course from Holwick 122º, course to Holwick 322º, separation from Holwick (Great circle) 2686.4 km (1451 nautical miles), close to sea level.

Timios Stavros (2.456 km, approximately 7000 feet), constitutes the main mountain complex and is also the highest point in Crete.

Flight details

:: Turkey ::

(most probable...)

Turkey $248 per day for 12 days (single) = $2990.

Mount Ararat 5.165 km (17000 feet) tall, 2689 km (1452 nautical miles) distant.

Bubi Mountain (ski resort)

South coast

Bursa (Total eclipse 1999 seen here too!)

Map 7, Tokat, 40.33º N, 36.67º E, 623m (2024 feet) a.m.s.l., 3274 km (1768 nm) distant is within a few kilometres of the eclipse centre line. Heading 103º from Holwick, 312º to Holwick.