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...areas of North America are more isolated or serene than Mexico's Oaxaca state, astride the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Foreign visitors are few, and they are usually young Americans interested in eating local "magic" mushrooms. Yet for the past few weeks, Oaxaca (pronounced wa-hac-a) has been bustling with unnatural activity. Toting tons of expensive paraphernalia, nearly 800 scientists from 14 countries have descended on the mountainous state. Frightened by the "demon" that the scientists have come to see, superstitious Indian villagers have been busily offering prayers, lighting candles and staging other rituals. Their supplications are designed...
...Oaxaca lies directly in the path of the narrow, 100-mile-wide shadow that will be cast by the moon as it moves directly between earth and sun. If the usual cloud-free weather prevails, the remote area will offer astronomers a ringside seat for the sky spectacular. As the moon's shadow sweeps northward, millions of Americans and Canadians may also be able to catch a glimpse of a total or nearly-total eclipse, although direct observation can be highly dangerous (see box). The path of totality extends across the Gulf of Mexico, cuts through Florida, Georgia...
...Harvard contingent, headed by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and former director of the Harvard College Observatory, will set up camp in Miahautlan, an Indian village south of Oaxaca. This will be Menzel's 13th eclipse. "The sun has been my specialty, and there is still no better method of observing the sun's outer corona than by watching an actual eclipse," he said...
...team of Harvard Observatory scientists is now preparing for a trip south this spring to study a three and a half minute solar eclipse from a base near Oaxaca, Mexico...
...eclipse will also be visible from Nantucket and along a band south to Mexico Scientists from all over the world will meet at Oaxaca. however. because the chance of cloud cover is smaller there than elsewhere along the band...