Bailey's will be most welcome for our coffees during our "Lammannular Solar Eclipse Breakfast" up on the hill, inside the Windturbine Pavilion, Monday, May 21, 5:30am; as long as the weather is not too horrible and there's at least partial visibility.

Sunrise at 5:45, eclipse at maximum at 6:08am, ends at 7:16am.

Even if the visibility is not perfect it should still be a great, Lamma-style, fun event:
Sunrise watching, eclipse watching AND breakfast with old and new friends above HK's only commercial windturbine, a "Typically Lamma!" event if there ever was one! And you'll still have enough time to get to work in town on time afterwards, after a really great start for your working week!

BYOB, Bring Your Own Breakfast, potluck-style, there's a nice table and seats inside the pavilion and the sunrise views should be great, even if clouds would obscure the actual eclipse. Example:
http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma-zine/Blog/Blog-2011-02.html#Feb28

<img src="http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma-zine/Blog/2009-07/Focussing-the-Eclipse-b.jpg" align=left hspace=8>Bring your own eclipse watching equipment, like a black plastic or glass, black goggles, or even a spotter scope (I'm trying to borrow one) to project the eclipse onto a sheet of paper, like at the last partial eclipse, observed from the Trig Point along the Snake Trail:
http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma-zine/Blog/Blog-2009-07.html#Jul22

To be promoted in the Lamma-zine as well, so we'll hopefully get more than myself up there...

The other, more Southern locations might offer a little bit better line of sight, but I might be the only one if we'd meet in the pavilion atop Ling Kok Shan?

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More info:
http://www.hkoutdoors.com/wild-activities/annular-eclipse-for-hong-kong-at-sunrise-21-may-2012.html

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Well, for those who are up there, note that both Mercury and Jupiter rise just a few minutes before the sun and moon:

Mercury rise 5:15
Jupiter rise 5:25
sunrise 5:41

Both are almost full phase, as both are on the far side of the sun (see http://www.theplanetstoday.com/ )

You might be able to see Mercury, 8 degrees above the sun, and Jupiter, 5 degrees, during the eclipse. Jupiter is very bright in a dark sky.

Well ,.. what a bummer... No, not the annular solar eclipse,... but the fact that my alarm clock went off at 5.00am, and I thought "Why did I set the clock so early, I'm not working this morning!" and promptly turned over and went back to sleep! Damn.

Looking forward to reading all the news on this forum!

it was hiding, this is about all we saw

More of Howard's and my own photos on the home page, Lamma-zine, May 21.

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Wow, spectacular photo's. The sunrise was amazing on it's own!

I'm still kicking myself as I've never seen a sunrise from the Wind Turbine either (inspired now though!)

Missed that.... what did I miss for breakfast too?? LOL