August, 2008

Lidia Santana and Francisco Ramirez saw the eclipse from near Yiwu, China.  The shirts are from their
tour organiser in the Canary Islands

Savier Lopez Marchal was also near Yiwu, at the official viewing site at Weizi Gorge	Dirk Ewers found this bamboo eclipse shirt in China

         
Dirk Ewers with another 2008 shirt (see his astronomical and tour photos at astroewers.de)

This shirt was issued to members of a French group who went to China	Lynn Anderson went to China with a Sky and Telescope/TravelQuest tour

             
Rui Costa, also photographed on eclipse day at Weizi Gorge outside Yiwu.  The eclipse was in Xinjiang
province, mentioned on the front of the shirt, which is the ethnic Uyghur region of western China

          
I must have spent too much time on eclipse day at Weizi Gorge photographing shirts.  By the time I got
around to buying one, this was the only design left--Neil

Patrick Matsalla bought this shirt at Yiwu, before they sold out of it at lunchtime	Lynn Phelps was clouded out in the Arctic Ocean on board the MV Discovery

                 
Mike Durst with a shirt from 2008.  He says that this shirt glows in the dark

Clint Werner joined the Sky and Telescope group in 2008, and went to the North Pole on a Russian icebreaker	John Duran says the skies were so clear in Novosibirsk on eclipse day, his friends got sunburned in Siberia

              
This shirt was made for our group of ten who saw the eclipse from Yiwu, Xinjiang province, China.  The
design, by group member Ryoichi Kushima, is based on a photo of us taken close to totality.  All shirts
made to this design were white (as worn by Neil) except for one in Hiroaki Kuwahara's signature orange

Sallie and Gary Clinard's business card describes them as "Eclipse chasers". Sallie shows us a 2008 Siberian shirt