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A total solar eclipse will occur on March 29, 2006 and will be visible from parts of Africa. The path of totality passes close to the town of Cape Coast in central Ghana. The University of Cape Coast (UCC) is one of three major universities in Ghana and has several active ongoing scientific programs, including an ICTP Affiliated Center for Lasers and Finer Optics (LAFOC).
We propose to produce a web cast of this celestial event and broadcast it from Cape Coast to students and other interested groups in the U.S., Africa and other parts of the world. We would like to leverage the event of the solar eclipse as an opportunity to showcase some of the scientific ...more >> |
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| The path of the eclipse on March 29, 2006 begins in the tropical climate of north-eastern Brazil, south of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) leaving Brazil, the shadow path curves slowly northward across the Atlantic and then ... more >> |
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Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research,
South Africa |
Dept of Physics
U.G,Legon |
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Network Computer
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Dept of Physics UCC |
Ghana Institute of Physics |
Dept of Physics KNUST |
Ghana Atomic
Energy Commission |
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| The total solar eclipse on March 29, 2006 would be viewed at the campuses of University Of Cape-Coast with the following programme line up... more >> |
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