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Last Post 10/23/2008 4:08 PM by KD Leka

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10/23/2008 5:50 AM
Mark A (Fx) 5th grade When was the last eclipse you seen, and did any of you take pictures? thanks

Terry Kucera

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10/23/2008 7:04 AM
Hi Mark, The last total solar (and only one so far) I saw was about 10 years ago - it was visible in the Caribbean, and I went to Curacao to see it.It was really fantastic. I think I snapped a picture or two, but I was not serious about it - you have to know what you are doing and put some effort into it to take a good eclipse picture. I was with some other people who brought along lots of telescopes and fancy cameras to take nice pictures, but I was did not want anything to distract me from just looking at the eclipse! Below is a photo of the eclipse that Fred Espenak took. Actually this is made up of more than one photo taken with different exposure times. cheers, Terry

KD Leka

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10/23/2008 4:08 PM
The last solar eclipse I saw was from Hungary in 1999. I tried to take pictures, but like Terry I just ended up looking! Prior to that was in Hawaii, when I was trying to do my PhD thesis. I had an experiment all planned out but we got rained out. The first eclipse I saw was when I was almost a baby, on Cape Cod. I barely remember it, but I do recall it was beautiful!