Eclipse at White Sands / Alamogordo, NM
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Summer is coming to southern New Mexico. It was 94° at 5:30 P.M. when I headed to the desert to for the annular solar eclipse late this afternoon. I can only imagine what August will be like.
After lathering on the sun screen and stuffing a couple of 94° bottles of water in my backpack, I trudged off across the dunes to find a good place for a shot. I staked out a place that I felt would have a good foreground to go with the eclipse and waited.......for 1½ hours. Around 7:30, it began to show itself.
I really needed a little more equipment, a lot
more skill and about 100 miles more distance to the north to have gotten
this right but here are my efforts on the show this afternoon. The
Alamogordo version was only about a 90% eclipse so the moon, so from my
vantage point, it did not go completely through the center of the sun.
And what self respecting desert would be without a camel to celebrate the event?
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