Pre: Madurai - Day I

After the Epic failure that TSE 2009 turned out to be last year, The Annular Eclipse of January 15th 2010 remained the sole hope of seeing a central eclipse anytime soon. Although it wasn't anywhere close to as exciting as a Total, It certainly did live up to my expectation.

Preparation for the ASE began pretty late. The announcement on The BAS Website took quite some time to get up. After some dilemma on whether to organize things formally (or not), We decided against it. This would be a smart decision since Rameshwaram (the destination a majority of us picked on) was indeed very crowded and managing a crowd would have been the last thing we would've wanted on our hands.

Final plans took shape pretty late. Naveen made a last minute change in his plans to hit Kanyakumari instead. Amar also preferred to stay off Rameshwaram and chose to go to Nagarkoil instead.