Eclipse Day

Me at Greenwich Observatory during our layover to London en route to Lusaka

Dad, Mom, me with a "motorcycle man" at the craft village in Lusaka

People singing and dancing in front of the Lusaka museum

A man looking at the sun through protective solar glasses on a street corner in Lusaka<

First light for my string telescope on the eve of the eclipse

Dad and Shilo at the observing site deciding where to set up the equipment

I set up my scope to project the sun's image onto a screen

The lake by which we observed the eclipse

Ernie Piini setting up his scope/camera. He has seen 22 eclipses

Only a sliver of sun is left

Dad scanning the horizon. Everything is noticibly, eerily darker

Mom looking at the sun through Dad's Pronto with a solar filter

The diamond ring!!

The lake during totality

Reflections off the lake. The horizon was red like this all the way around. Tilted because I was looking at the sun, not through the camera

Totality. The moon was a much larger black disk, and the corona extended much farther than is shown. The camera couldn't capture this well

A neat double-sun effect produced during totality by a low shutter speed and an unstable camera

Just after the second diamond ring. Smeared because of a low shutter speed

Me with our guide, Linda. Both quite excited (an understatement)

And the moon recedes......

The receding moments of partiality

Goodbye eclipse

On the way back to Lusaka

The sun sets