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Chasing Shadows236 viewsThe Moon is making progress in its task of covering up the Sun, which is now about 35% obscured.
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Clouding Up235 viewsTowards sunset, the clouds, which had mercifully given us a clear sky for the entire eclipse, began to move in on our observation site.
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Binocular Projection, continued232 viewsThe Moon has now covered up about half the Sun's disk.
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Bombe II229 viewsIn the movie, the dessert chef and heroine, played by Jacqueline Bisset, is to be killed by a bomb within a bombe. The Kaya Side bombes also exploded, but only with flavor in one's mouth.
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Shadows on the Sheet229 viewsThe image of the partially-eclipsed sun is projected through Sandie's binoculars onto the sheet spread on the ground.
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Eclipse Projections229 viewsSomeone laid out a sheet on the pavement, with the aim of projecting onto it a sharp and well-defined image of the shadow of the Moon crossing the Sun.
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Closing in on Totality226 viewsThe binocular projections show us that the Sun is now about 2/3 covered by the Moon.
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Kaya Side Hotel near totality226 viewsThis is a slightly blurry view of the Kaya Side Hotel, as seen from the beachfront where we watched the eclipse, taken close to totality, when the light was getting low, the camera lens was wide open and the shutter speed too slow to deal with camera shake.
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You, Andrew Marvell223 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange...
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Concerto222 viewsThe imaginative decadence of the Kaya Side desserts surpassed our wildest expectations.
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LIghting the Fuse222 viewsMaybe these are real bombs after all, and the cooks are really terrorists in disguise.
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Piece de Resistance221 viewsThe Kitchen Team makes their grand entry with their masterpiece, the Nuclear Bombe, otherwise known as a Baked Alaska.
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