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Binocular Projection, continued412 viewsThe Moon has now covered up about half the Sun's disk.
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Ready to Shoot the Eclipse412 viewsMy equipment: a TeleVue Pronto 70mm refractor on a TelePod mount; a Baader mylar white-light filter, and an Olympus OM-1 film camera. In the background, just behind my back, Marvin Blaski is relaxing and enjoying the spectacle.
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LIghting the Fuse411 viewsMaybe these are real bombs after all, and the cooks are really terrorists in disguise.
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Keeping on Track409 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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Bombe II407 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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Halfway There402 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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You, Andrew Marvell398 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange...
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Piece de Resistance384 viewsThe Kitchen Team makes their grand entry with their masterpiece, the Nuclear Bombe, otherwise known as a Baked Alaska.
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Taking the High Ground380 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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More Cabbage Flowers380 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 Call372 viewsJerry & Sandie take a break for a celebratory snapshot after third contact.
 
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