Solar Eclipse in Japan

The decade's longest solar eclipse happened over southern Japan and other parts of Asia this morning. Here in Kyoto, the eclipse did not reach totality - it was about 80%. There was just enough cloud about to watch the eclipse without eye protection. My wife Hiroe and I watched the eclipse from Shinyodo Temple, near our house. It was much better than we had expected. While we were watching, an airliner flew right in front of the sun, creating a double artificial/natural eclipse. We liked that. This was my fourth solar eclipse: I've seen previous partial eclipses in New York City as a child, and in Paris and Thailand as an adult. Now, we're keen to see a total eclipse and we're looking at one that's going to take place in Borneo in 2013.