Under the heading of Highlights on the website of the US Liaison Office in Libya ( aka embassy), I found this interesting piece of news which I copy pasted because it was on the front page with no specified link (see photo also, courtesy of USLO website).
"Fred Espenak, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, spoke to an overflowing audience at the Tripoli Planetarium on Friday, March 24 on total solar eclipses. His presentation, featuring stunning film of the almost twenty previous solar eclipses he has witnessed, was enthusiastically received by an overflowing audience eager to hear about the nature of eclipses. Mr. Espenak, known throughout the world as Mr. Eclipse due to his unparalleled expertise on the subject, highlighted that Libya offers the optimum viewing location for the upcoming total solar eclipse on March 29, 2006, particularly from the two sites of Jalu and Waw an Namous. "
"Ten scientists and television personnel from NASA have arrived in Libya and will be conducting joint scientific activities with their Libyan counterparts in Waw an Namous. On the 25th of March the scientists presented lectures on Solar Weather and met with professors and students at Al Fateh University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering. On March 26 they will be meeting with Libyan scientists at the Center for Remote Sensing and Space Exploration before heading down to the desert to view the eclipse."
Of course I'm back from Tunis, will post about the trip with some photos soon...
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An old friend of mine watched the eclipse from a Mediterranean cruise, and then took a side trip to visit some Libyan ruins.
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