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Eclipocalypse, Columbia: 22 August 2017 no comments
Posted at 1:05 am in closing
Well, unsurprisingly, most of my pictures didn't turn out at all, and these are pretty poor, but it was an impressive, if brief, moment here in the capital city. As totality approached, the street lights turned on, evening birds took wing, and the one car on the road had headlights lit.
There was a very light sprinkle ahead of totality, but during that brief interval itself, the clouds actually parted, and we all got to ooh and ahh at the firey crona around the occluded disk. Somewhere in the distance, fireworks started..
Get Ready Columbia! 3 comments
Posted at 1:39 pm in commentary