All eyes on sky yesterday in Turkey
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All eyes turned to the sky yesterday in Turkey to view the full solar eclipse, the first of this century. While people in the Anatolian city of Niksar greeted the eclipse with prayers, some citizens in Ordu fired guns into the air to celebrate the event. A NASA team which had set up a monitor in the Temple to Apollo in Side broadcast a live stream of the event to those interested all over the world, including to the Exploratorium in San Franscisco.
Temperature dropped considerably during eclipse in Antalya
3 main viewing centers were set up in the southern city of Antalya, from which the sun's full eclipse could be watched with ease. Meteorologists noted that the tempurature in Antalya fell by 5 degrees Centigrade with the eclipse of the sun. Meanwhile, in Nevsehir, engineer Ali Rize Illeez and Belgian nurse Gonter Chantal marrried during the 3 minutes ecplipse, announcing that they would give the name "Gunes" or 'sun', to their first child.
In the Anatolian city of Niksar, where rumours of an impending earthquake coinciding with the solar eclipse have been circulating for weeks, many women began to scream at the sun began to disappear behind the moon, while others began to pray. Present in Niksar was a team of Turkish professors from the Kandilli earthquake institute in Istanbul.