Indeed, thanks for this alert Ernst,
Besides your message: “it is not exlude that the eclipse could begin some days before the calculated date August 4th”
it could also be later. According to the work of Leedjärv et.al. (A&A 1999) it seems the orbital period has a tendency of increasing between the eclipses due to a possible mass transfer or mass ejection. (Approximately 1% per two former eclipses).
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1999A%26A…349..511L
Anyway we hope the weather conditions will be favourable at the very moment of the (calculated) beginning of the eclipse.
Usefull weather info with “observation location” input possibility:
http://www.meteoblue.com or http://www.meteovista.com/international/4220/0
Kind regards,
Marc.