It should start around 7:00 p.m. Too bad we wont be able to see the full thing though. Anyone know where a good high elevation spot is close to Centreville?

I was thinking of going to Bull Run Battlefield because of the wider field of view. Not exactly high elevation, but hey, at least it is better than what I got at home.

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"Anyone know where a good high elevation spot is close to Centreville?"

I-66 landfill

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> "Anyone know where a good high elevation spot is
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SkyMeadows state park ain't so far from lil' Koreatown

That big hill at Ticonderoga Farms

An annular solar eclipse will take place on May 20, 2012 (May 21, 2012 for local time in Eastern Hemisphere), with a magnitude of 0.9439. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.

The annular phase will be visible from the Chinese coast, northern Taiwan, the south of Japan, and the western part of the United States and Canada. Guangzhou, Taipei, Tokyo and Albuquerque will be on the central path. Its maximum will occur in the North Pacific, south of the Aleutian islands for 5 min and 46.3 s, and finish in the western United States.

It will be the first central eclipse of the 21st century in the continental USA, and also the first annular eclipse there since the solar eclipse of May 10, 1994 which was also the previous eclipse of this series Solar Saros 128.
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Sooooo....guess we are not going to see any of it. Just another reason for me to hate the East Coast. Oh well, I guess I can wait 5 more years to something I've always wanted to.

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> Sooooo....guess we are not going to see any of it.

Might be able to see the start of the munch just about when the sun sets.