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Carolyn and Mark's German Eclipse Adventure
Eclipse I
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One minute until totality -- oh, please, oh,
please!
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And then, what do we see through the clouds...
Yes!! The beautiful diamond ring effect as the Moon slipped in front
of the Sun. And a prominence at the bottom!
What you don't see here are all of us standing near the fountain,
shouting and waving and laughing as the shadow of totality swept over
us, almost completely unhindered by the clouds that had been plaguing
us all morning.
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Ah, totality!
We were ecstatic!
Notice the beautiful coronal streamers stretching out from the Sun.
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Even Venus was easy to see shining through the
thin clouds (about 7 o'clock in this picture); we didn't see Mercury though.
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While we were familiar with the darkness of the umbra, this eclipse seemed
much darker (and colder) than last year's in the Caribbean; surely the
clouds had something to do with it. |