Re: ? Pic's of the Eclipse'99 ??

On 11 Aug 1999 20:45:57 GMT, Christoph Gebhardt (chr...@hangout.de) wrote:
: Michael Hagedorn wrote:
: >Is there a pic of the eclipse outside ???

: Here is how the sky looked like above Hamburg at 12:30 local time:
:                .---'''''--.
:       ________(            )
:      (        )             )
:     (          )           )
:    .-'-----.--''''''''-.--'
:   (       (             )
:  (.      (             )
:    (      '--......---'
:     '-------'

Here in Helsinki I just barely managed to catch a glimpse of a crescent
sun for a few seconds out of the rear window of a car when the cloud cover
got a bit thinner than usual.

The positive side was that there was no need for a dark glass, since the
sun was only barely visible anyway. ;-)

It actually looked pretty damn weird compared to a the more usual sight of
a crescent moon. In paintings one often sees crescents that look like the
intersection of two circles, (instead of a half-illuminated sphere) and
face in any random direction, but seeing one in reality took me a while to
realize what it was that looked so odd about it.

Hmm.. shouldn't be hard to draw..

            _.-----._
         .-"         "-.
       .'               `.
     .'                   `.
    .'                     `.
   .'                       `.
   ;                         `.
  ;           _.-----._       :
  f        .-"         "-.    1
  |      .'               `.  |
  l    .'                   `.j
  :   .'                     `:
  `. .'
   `.;
     `
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Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi)
http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/