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Totality 2710 viewsIf you look closely, a prominence can be seen at approximately 9 o'clock on the disk of the eclipsed Sun.
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Post-Totality 3710 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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First contact plus ~45 minutes706 viewsAbout 3/4 through pre-totality.
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Post-Totality 2706 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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OCA Club Observatory705 viewsThe Club Observatory (right) houses the 22-inch Kuhn telescope.
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12 minutes to Second Contact705 viewsSeems like the Moon has a long way to go to annularity - will it make it in time?
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About 20 minutes after First Contact704 viewsA big chunk of the Sun is gone already.
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Pre-Totality 9704 viewsAnd Spain go under and the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land
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First Contact plus 4-1/2 hours - a different take702 viewsSlower camera settings produced a dimmer Sun.
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Totality 3701 viewsA longer exposure shows up the corona somewhat better. We are now approaching the end of totality.
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Post-Totality 3700 viewsThe Sun hits the horizon, about a quarter through post-totality.
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Pre-Totality 3698 viewsTo feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow
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