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All pictures taken 70mm f/6.8 Pronto Telescope, and 200 iso Kodak Ektachrome Film. 

Middle image-Corona.  This picture is a composite of 7 pictures at varying exposures assembled by
Richard Berry using Adobe PhotoShop.  Jupriter is at lower right.

 


On the Deck of the
Cruise Ship Fascination






On the Deck of the Cruise Ship Fascination prior to the Solar Eclipse. 

Let this (top 2 pictures) be pictorial proof that I, as stated repeatedly, was never worried about the weather, even after cruising through a minor cold rainfall.  Mel wasn't so confident.  I even expressed this confidence in the Captain on a ship's video tape interview of me.  He had the equipment and he was holding a straight line at about 25 knots.  He knew something.  I never saw the video tape, but my "deck neighbors" told me I was edited out because I made too much sense.   I took it as a compliment. 

Lower pictures Me (Greg Babcock) inset left picture, on my back waiting.  

What is not seen.  About 20 minutes prior to first contact, Steve Swayze discovered that his Telescope would not focus with a camera.  In classic last second Steve style, he had not rehearsed or tested his newly completed clever 8 inch Telescope.  He greeted me on a ship stairway with a "WHERE'S MEL?"   I told I though Mel had spacers that would solve his problem.  Mel did.  The picture I would pay $100 for is the one where Steve has taken over a ping pong table and has his 8 inch Telescope spread out all over it.  Steve did manage to get some excellent pictures. 

Photos courtesy of Barbara Drake.


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Picture featured on Richard Berry's Year 2000 Calendar by Tide-Mark.



  Caribbean Tour
St. Thomas, Aruba,  Venezula, Puerto Rico, on board the Cruise Ship Fascination 


Eclipses & Transits on this website
Mercury Transit, Nov-8, 2006  
Venus Transit, Jun-8, 2004
Total Solar Eclipse, Africa, Jun 21,  2001
Total Solar Eclipse, Turkey, Aug- 11, 1999
Total Solar Eclipse, Aruba, Feb-26, 1998
Lunar Eclipse, 1993
Partial Solar Eclipses-4 Eclipses from 1977-2000

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