The Eclipse

21st June 2001

Paul giving an astronomy lesson to the locals.

The sun over our eclipse watching spot
Jeff set up a telescope to project the image of the sun. This proved to be popular with the locals (below)

Approaching totality.
Observing the partial phase of the eclipse.
Preparing for totality.

Totality

The leaves on the trees acted as pinhole cameras, projecting dozens of crescent suns onto the ground.
A preying mantis walking around on one of our dinner tables.

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