X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c2b0177d2f409614 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: iltzu@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) Subject: Re: ? Pic's of the Eclipse'99 ?? Date: 1999/08/12 Message-ID: <7ov671$plh$1@tron.sci.fi>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 511963787 Distribution: world References: <37b1cc68.10425018@news.uni-muenster.de> Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On 11 Aug 1999 20:45:57 GMT, Christoph Gebhardt (chris@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 : .' `: `. .' `.; ` -- Ilmari Karonen (iltzu@sci.fi) http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/