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DATELINE - 80 KM SOUTH OF JALU, WESTERN DESERT, LIBYA
Totality occured with perfect clarity, though I wish I could say the same thing for my new contact lenses. I had trouble resolving the ring of the sun as a single image; in fact, the view was considerably better through my camera lens. I also wasted a considerable amount of the four minutes, four seconds of totality fidgetting with the tripod supporting my video camera. Once, one of the eclipse veterans with a stopwatch called out "Sixty seconds!" "Elapsed?" I desperately cried. "No, remaining!" was the disappointing response.
Three initial pictures from the twenty or so I shot during totality, two diamond rings and a shot of the solar prominences in the chromosphere. We're going to try to create a composite image of the corona later. It's too hot right now to do much work in this tent; the free electricity seems to be sucked up more by the computers than by the air conditioners. I'll try to have some more pictures (and maybe video) up later.
Totality occured with perfect clarity, though I wish I could say the same thing for my new contact lenses. I had trouble resolving the ring of the sun as a single image; in fact, the view was considerably better through my camera lens. I also wasted a considerable amount of the four minutes, four seconds of totality fidgetting with the tripod supporting my video camera. Once, one of the eclipse veterans with a stopwatch called out "Sixty seconds!" "Elapsed?" I desperately cried. "No, remaining!" was the disappointing response.
Three initial pictures from the twenty or so I shot during totality, two diamond rings and a shot of the solar prominences in the chromosphere. We're going to try to create a composite image of the corona later. It's too hot right now to do much work in this tent; the free electricity seems to be sucked up more by the computers than by the air conditioners. I'll try to have some more pictures (and maybe video) up later.