| We watched the eclipse from a field outside the town of Niederroedern in Alsace.
A thousand other people went to the same hillside on an obscure little country road.
It was cloudy over western France that morning. But the indications were
that it was worse in other places, so we made do the best we could.
The clouds closed in just before totality. We got to see totality for no more than 3 seconds.
That was long enough for the image of the corona surrounding the dark orb hanging in the sky
to be permanently impressed on my brain. But it was not long enough to take many photographs.
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The cloudy sky did allow me to take some interesting pictures of the
crescent sun through the clouds. Here are three of them:
I got one photo of the onset of totality, which I have processed
in several ways to bring out different aspects. They are here:
Anne took some good photos of the rest of us watching the eclipse,
setting up cameras and telescopes, etc...
| The Group Photo
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| David Stokes (Me) | Margaret Zimmerman | Terry Zimmerman
| Peter Dove | Patrick Young |
| Anne Smith | Jason Vestuto | Gregg Geist |
All images copyright David Stokes and Anne Smith.
Last Update: 29 September, 1999
Comments: David Stokes at dstokes@indiana.edu
