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Event Horizon - Astronomical and Terrestrial Images

Home > Adventures Abroad > Turkey 2006 > Kaya Side Hotel - Eclipse Day, 3/29/2006 Kaya Side Hotel - Eclipse Day, 3/29/2006 Jim Windlinger's Setup663 viewsJim Windlinger brought a superb array of equipment to the 2006 eclipse - a Borg telescope, all-automated mount and guiding apparatus, digital camera. But it was the Nazar Boncuk hanging from the counterweight shaft that really guaranteed the success of his endeavor. Optical Delusion663 viewsAt first glance it appears that Michelle is using some weird kind of periscope here to shoot the eclipse. On closer inspection, it's just a regular camera shot against the background of a black pole sticking up out of the sand in back. Meanwhile, it appears as if Chuck Mattox is trying to stamp on some noxious insect about to pounce on the girl in front. Shadows on the Sheet691 viewsThe image of the partially-eclipsed sun is projected through Sandie's binoculars onto the sheet spread on the ground. A Rapt Audience754 viewsOur tour group, along with other Kaya Side guests, gathers for the onset of the spectacle. Rube Goldberg Improvisation695 viewsChuck and Elouise concocted some cockamamie scheme to try to capture the onset of totality, while I looked on with bemused scepticism. Don't remember how well their crazy apparatus worked. Chasing Shadows701 viewsThe Moon is making progress in its task of covering up the Sun, which is now about 35% obscured. Keeping on Track679 viewsSince my setup was all-manual, with no motor drive or Go-To electronics, I had to continually adjust the mount to keep the Sun's image in the camera viewfinder. Botanical Optics649 viewsSomeone cleverly hid a napkin or cloth square in the bushes to capture the little crescents produced by the moon-shaped sunlight being filtered through the foliaige Binocular Projection, continued647 viewsThe Moon has now covered up about half the Sun's disk. Halfway There646 viewsRick Gering and Jim Windlinger keep tabs on the progress of the eclipse by monitoring their equipment, while Mike Treder and Pat Bush check out the projections on the sheet. You, Andrew Marvell658 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees Take leaf by leaf the evening strange... 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