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Over-The-Hill Observatory
Builder/Owner: Rich Lohman, Woodacre, CA
“Take a breath and enjoy receiving trillions of atoms of oxygen—most of them the gifts of an exploding Star.” Rick Hanson, Ph, D. neuropsychologist/author of "Buddha’s Brain"
On Sunday afternoon, May 20, 2012, I set up two telescopes in a public location nearby to view the partial solar eclipse. Friends and passersby stopped to view the solar crescent. In the photos you will see an "eyepiece projection" setup (using a simple refractor telescope) to view the eclipse indirectly. There is also a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector telescope with a solar filter to view it directly.
We also had fun projecting hundreds of small images of the eclipse through a piece of masonite filled with holes.
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