Eclipse. IRD200-1961, with story

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The Moon enters from the right slowly blotting out the Sun.  Caught in a rare cosmic dance I captured this image in infrared.  The atmospheric conditions were illuminated in a haze.

Taken with a 400mm Nikkor with 720 angstrom opaque filter on a converted D-200 infrared body, as I switched from conventional D-800 body.  I didn't need the filter as the camera was converted, but it was a safety device to keep from burning up the camera's sensor.

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eugene spiegel

The solar eclipse neared totality in my region, but never achieved the spectacular effect possible.  As always I did the best I could and decided the partial appeared better this way, rather than a sliver at the top.

  D-800