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Total Solar Eclipse | 22 July 2009

Hangzhou Tidal Bore Site
China
Televue 76 Apochromatic Refractor at f/8.8
Nikon D80 Takahashi Teegul Equatorial Mount

Clouded out for much of the event including totality

100% cloud cover persisted

The eternal optimist!

Brief glimpses of partial phases came and went

Almost total darkness at totality