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Binocular Projection, continued469 viewsThe Moon has now covered up about half the Sun's disk.
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Botanical Optics467 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
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LIghting the Fuse466 viewsMaybe these are real bombs after all, and the cooks are really terrorists in disguise.
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Bombe II465 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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Keeping on Track456 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.
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You, Andrew Marvell453 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange...
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Halfway There444 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.
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Piece de Resistance439 viewsThe Kitchen Team makes their grand entry with their masterpiece, the Nuclear Bombe, otherwise known as a Baked Alaska.
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More Cabbage Flowers428 viewsThere was a great variety of cabbage flowers. These used carved radishes, zucchini squash carved to look like lilies, etc. Incredible food artistry!
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Curtain Call427 viewsJerry & Sandie take a break for a celebratory snapshot after third contact.
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Taking the High Ground416 viewsI guess these people figured they could get a better view of the eclipse by being a bit closer to the Sun.
 
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