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Totality 3240 viewsA longer exposure shows up the corona somewhat better. We are now approaching the end of totality.
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Diamond Ring249 viewsThe Diamond Ring heralds the end of totality at 13:58:47 local time.
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Post-Totality 1291 viewsThe Moving Finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Post-Totality 2217 viewsBut at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
- Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
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Post-Totality 3237 viewsCome! And in the fires of Spring
The winter garment of Repentance fling;
The Bird of Time hath but a little way to fly
And Lo! The Bird is on the wing!
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Post-Totality 4280 viewsAt this point I ran out of film, so I didn't make it to Fourth Contact with the post-totality images.
   
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