On August 1st 2008, the Moon's shadow touched down in Arctic Canada. It raced across the north pole, down across Svaalbard, across Russia, Mongolia and finally reached the Gobi desert northeast of Jiayuguan, in Gansu Province, China, where three hundred enthusiastic people were eagerly awaiting its arrival.

The clouds seen below the Sun in this image were playing hide and seek with the Sun until just twenty minutes before totality! Twenty minutes before totality I confidently declared to my good friend Bengt Alfredsson who was set up a few metres to my right, "we're in the clear, we're going to see it." And we did!

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	See individual exposures of the corona at many different shutter speeds
	See composite images where all the individual exposures have been stiched into one long continuous image.
	See fascinating time-lapse photography of the Moons shadow sweeping across the sky
	Read all about it in my detailed observers report. Yaaawn!