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APOD - An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse

apod.nasa.gov — The Sun, the Moon, Antarctica, and two photographers all lined up in 2003 Antarctica during an unusual total eclipse of the Sun.

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  • castevens, on 05/04/2008, -2/+18One of the worst quality APOD's yet, but still extremely interesting
    • Godlike, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1Can someone please photoshop this and kill the dude and the lawn chair.
  • Sarasvati50, on 05/04/2008, -2/+3Wow...just wow...
  • sc0rpi0n, on 05/04/2008, -7/+16Somebody has gone all the way to the Antarctica to witness the "once in a life-time" solar eclipse, yet carry with him just a phone camera. That's just fcking unbelievable!
    • ElFredo, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1This explains a lot:

      http://www.moonglow.net/eclipse/2003nov23/index.ht ...

      "Upon arriving at the site there was a problem, South wasn't where it was when Jen surveyed the site in February. A large rise would block our view of the eclipse. To come all this way, spend all this money, have perfect weather, and miss the eclipse because of a snowbank would not do. We could not move south or west due to crevasses. East was no better. So that left north, we started hiking that way in the hope that as we got further from the ridge we would see over it better. We arrived at a suitable place only about 30 minutes before totality.

      There was no time left to set up all of the equipment I had brought, so I had to prioritize and set up whatever I could. It was so bone-chillingly cold that batteries and cameras were dying left and right. Put a fresh battery in and it's dead within minutes. My fancy Meade LXD55 tracking mount decided it was in the northern hemisphere and refused to track the sun in the correct direction. Oh well. "
  • annsid, on 05/04/2008, -0/+10A friend of mine, Tora Greve, a woman who is about seventy, also went to Antarctica in 2003. A Russian freight plane offered her and two other people a lift there. Tora also took pictures of the solar eclipse, but she said it was hard to manage the equipment because it kept freezing. Imagine!
  • MBlayden, on 05/04/2008, -4/+1Amazing shot
    • didgital, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3Actually 4 shots if you read the description.
  • warlok2, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1really a cool picture
  • gordmoo, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2either that or Indiana Jones next adventure is actually in the antarctic, those giant balls just follow him everywhere
  • cjh24, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3The expedition respomsible:
    http://www.moonglow.net/eclipse/2003nov23/index.ht ...
  • AlxRymnd914, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3"....a composite of four separate images digitally combined to realistically simulate how the adaptive human eye saw the eclipse"

    It's not one picture....
    • zhimbo, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3That's just to deal with the extreme dynamic range of brightness in the picture. Different exposure times are needed so that details can be seen in different parts of the picture.
  • 3leggedHorse, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1 PS.
  • SpookyApplePie, on 05/04/2008, -6/+1Pics or it didnt happen

    ....oh wait
    • MrSlumberjack, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1You can't do that on television
  • seedhead, on 05/04/2008, -4/+0They traveled to the bottom of the earth to see, in person, the most amazing natural wonder of them all... God's browneye.
  • aserer511, on 05/04/2008, -6/+2black old son, won't you come..
    • Evolutuon, on 05/04/2008, -2/+4hole
    • snurfle, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1Ummm.... What?
      Is that supposed to be "Black Hole Sun"?
      Or are you the reason why kissthisguy jumped the shark a week after it went live?
    • optimuscrime, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1-_-
  • nitesoulja, on 05/04/2008, -5/+1fake
  • spyd3rweb, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1What did some 15 year old take this with his phone camera?
  • shadowflower, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1that guy looks like photoshopped.. or maybe it's the snow..
  • unixbomber, on 05/05/2008, -0/+0That would be amazing to see in person.
  • FUZE, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I have a picture of a total eclipse of my heart...
  • microbot, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0Great! I fly 10,000 miles to Antarctica and some @sshole sets up his camera right in front of me!
  • caponumen, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Too bad, all that way and such poor results.
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