What are you and the family doing on July 11? How about watching this summer’s solar eclipse from a vantage point that’s a little bit closer to the sun? Glenn Schneider, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, has chartered a plane that will fly 12 km over the South Pacific Ocean to get a better-than-bird’s-eye view of the total solar eclipse that will happen on 7/11 2500 km east of Tahiti.
And, what’s better is that he’s looking for people to join him. Flying at 39,000 feet, you’ll have an unobstructed view above the clouds. The flying eclipse chasers will also get the rare opportunity of remaining in the lunar shadow for an unprecedented 9.5 minutes, versus the 7 minutes you’d get if you were stuck on earth. Last, but not least, they are stripping out all of the seats on the side of the plane facing the eclipse, making it easier for 
passengers to take it all in.
Interested? Check out the Eclipse Safari website. If you go, you can bring back a photo like this one:
