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Pre-Totality 6653 viewsAnd Baghdad darken and the bridge
Across the silent river gone
And through Arabia the edge
Of evening widen and steal on
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Seven minutes after Third Contact650 viewsC3 + 7:01
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Post-Totality 4642 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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28 Minutes after Third Contact641 viewsC3 + 28:08
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First Contact plus ~30 minutes638 viewsAbout halfway through pre-totality.
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Totality - a few seconds after Second Contact636 viewsAfter the eclipse went total, I had to try several different exposure settings to get it right - 1/2 second seemed to work best.
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Black Drop Effect635 viewsFirst Contact plus 11 minutes. Venus appears to be glued to the rim of the Sun's disk. This is known as the "Black Drop Effect."
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Two minutes after Third Contact633 viewsC3 + 2 min 16 sec
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Corona Effects632 viewsSome trick of post-capture processing gave the corona a greenish ring. Don't ask me how that happened.
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Post-Totality 2631 viewsThe Moon is rising, the Sun is setting. How will this end?
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First Contact630 viewsVenus takes a tiny nibble out of the Sun's disk just past the 5 o'clock position.
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Three Minutes after Third Contact626 viewsC3 + 3 min 1 sec
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