Total solar eclipse observed well from Asia, sea and air

As with the previous total solar eclipse in 2006 the view was clear along much of the track of totality during the TSE of 1 August 2008 - from places in the Arctic sea (with dismal weather stats) through Russia, Mongolia and China where the eclipse was even visible a few degrees above horizon in its central region. And there were even two eclipse flights, originating in Germany and Canada.

Three days later the web is full with early impressions and detailled reports - and it became clear that the corona's shape had been predicted very well several days ahead, as a comparision with a first composite by Lüthen (explained here) shows.

There are now picture galleries by SpaceWeather, S&T, LA Times, Welt, Chicago Tribune, Tagesschau and even the Huffington Post - and radioastronomical amateur observations of the partial phase. Individual links follow, sorted by region along the track.

• From the Arctic we have Staiger's videos 1, 2 and 3 (nice emotions :-), pictures by ShadowChaser and coverage by Sueddeutsche (but the guy's real name is Strickling).
  
  
• From Russia, the easiest location in the totality strip, there are reports and results by Pasachoff and Neumann (discussion), a video (discussed here), pictures by Ayiomamitis (processed corona), Göller (more), Shamilek and Chasiotis and coverage by Novosti, AP, RusslandOnline and Aktuell.
  
  
• From Mongolia (with difficult communications in the remote eclipse zone) we have already reports and pictures by Bruenjes, Sims (fine multiple image over landscape) and Flanagan.
  
  
• From China have a look at
  • first impressions by yours truly (50+ pictures, here is an earlier report; others were in the same spot and - despite the last-minute cloud scare - got great pics and this corona composite),
    
  • recorded live broadcasts by Chinese (well produced; cool sound ...) and Exploratorium (from close to yours truly; highlights edited by the BBC and on YouTube, also here), a nicely edited amateur video (with very low Sun & much extinction during totality), another one with a clear low Sun and a clouded out one (with watchers still awed enough),
    
  • travelogues by Krause, Ewers (nice pics from near where yours truly was), SEMS (featured in the low video above) and Grupo Saros and pictures by Yen (with one cloud in the wrong spot) and Kato.
  And coverage by Xinhua (preview), China Daily (more; pictures), CCTV, China.org, Irish Times and DLF.
  
  
• From the German polar flight exist striking timelapse videos shot from the right and left side of the plane, a narrated slide show and a photo album, a composite photo by Kraemer (processed by Schneider), a TV news clip by ZDF and coverage by Space.com.
  
  
• The Canadian eclipse flight resulted in a somewhat shaky but even better video and a report with further still pictures (pre-take-off story).
  
  
• And finally from Central Europe and Western Asia (where the eclipse was only partial) reports have come in from the ROG, Karrer (with hi-res lunar limb detail), Paleske (dito), Dangl, Holzeis (prominence detail), Engert, Pikhard (public event), Psy and from Heuchelheim, Greenwich and Zurich, with coverage by NDTV, PNP (nice snapshot), RP (with 27 pics), NewsClick, Aachener Nachr. and SPIEGEL.

General coverage of the eclipse (covering its impact in several places) was provided by Sky & Tel., LA Times, MSNBC, BBC, CNN, AP, IB Times, Bild (with Reuters video, also here), Sat1, N24 (with other video), T-Online, DPA, News and in this video. And there was even an unusual view from space, explained here.