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Re: [OM] 16 hours of driving for 2 minutes of twilight????

Subject: Re: [OM] 16 hours of driving for 2 minutes of twilight????
From: Don Holbrook <donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
.......,looked nice on ABC too,,,,,,,,,sitting in the AC............

> 
>     On August 22, 2017 at 11:50 AM Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     One long evening and one long day of driving found me pulled off on a
>     parking area on I25 south of Douglas, Wy, at 8:30 PM Sunday evening.
>     I was totally exhausted and spent the night sleeping in the car. By
>     morning there were probably twenty other cars/campers parked here, and
>     more pulled in during the morning. Had a nice view to the west over
>     rolling sagebrush land, with smoke-obscured mountains in the far
>     distance. I stayed put.
>     For those who think a 90% eclipse is a non-event, well, maybe.
>     But I simply don't have the words for totality. Mind-blowing,
>     jar-dropping, spiritual, amazing--none of these come even close. One
>     serious eclipse-watcher there had some huge Celestron telescope set
>     up, and he welcomed all there to take a peek. I put a welding goggle
>     filter over a OM 300 mm silver-nosed lens on my OM4T and took several
>     shots as the moon progressed across the sun. I also had the Canon
>     1014 XLS on a tripod on the top of the car doing its one frame/second
>     time lapse of the scenery to the west.
>     Part of the fun was talking to many of the other observers
>     there--wonderful folks, and every last one was as carried away as I
>     was by totality. I'm starting planning for the 2024 eclipse that goes
>     from Texas to Maine, with totality lasting four minutes.
>     Totality is orders of magnitude above 90%. I don't have the words
>     to express it. The drive was worth it many times over.
> 
>     Totality Dean
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