Terry Pratchett, astronomer

23 May 2008 (14:35) Appearances Terry Pratchett News News Archives

timesonline.co.uk reports that Terry Pratchett, along with The Sky At Night BBC program, is traveling aboard a cruise ship in July to see the total eclipse of the sun next year, which the BBC will broadcast live.

The eclipse, whose totality is predicted to last 6.39 minutes, will be the longest for a century.  The next eclipse of this length occurs more than one hundred years later, on 13 June 2132. Terry Pratchett leaves Taipei in Taiwan July 17, 2009 for a nine-day cruise run by the travel company Eclipse of the Century.  The cruise will include a July 22 trip to the optimum position for viewing the eclipse, which is about 22,224 meters off the coast of Yakushima, a Japanese island.

To book a place on the tour, visit EclipseOfTheCentury.com.

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