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Originally Posted by Captain Charlie
Gary, would be interested to know if in '76 you saw the eclipse from aboard the chartered Cessna or just flew somewhere to watch it? (I was at Pambula looking over the ocean.)
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Hi Charlie,
You were right next door!
We flew Bankstown to Merimbula, landed and watched it from there at
the northern end of the airport. The airport is literally across the road
from the beach.
From memory it had been raining earlier but when we arrived
we had clear skies. We would have got airborne again if need be.
One distinct memory of that eclipse was the significant number of stars that
became observable at totality. By comparison, I glanced around quickly
last week and saw Venus and at least one or two other bright stars,
but in '76 I observed many more.
Lots of birds were also observed in '76 flying home to roost.
I shot off an entire roll of Kodachrome 25 which back then you would
ship to Kodak in those little yellow pre-paid envelopes. To my
disappointment, the processed transparencies never came back,
the only transparenices I ever shot that were never returned.