Solar Eclipse - 22nd September 1968

[Mark at Beaufort]

Yesterday someone sent me a photo of an observing session of the solar eclipse in 1968. I don't think I have ever seen this photo before. The scope was my 60mm Refractor and we view the eclipse through a Swift Herschel Wedge. The house was my Parents and the building behind the group was my wooden observatory. I am second from the left - a young 20 year old.

[Owmuchonomy]

Some serious jumper action going on there!  If I saw that blind I would ask when is the first album to be released?

[Moonshane]

That is so cool. It must have brought memories flooding back when you saw it.

[Mark at Beaufort]

5 minutes ago, Owmuchonomy said:

  If I saw that blind I would ask when is the first album to be released?

The other 3 members in the photo were a local 'Pop' group and as well as sending me the photo they enclosed their CD called 'Winter Moon'.

[Dave Lloyd]

That's great, I remember being in my second to last year at school. We all went out with bits of fogged negative. Our technical equipment wasn't quite on a par with yours.

[Owmuchonomy]

4 minutes ago, Mark at Beaufort said:

The other 3 members in the photo were a local 'Pop' group and as well as sending me the photo they enclosed their CD called 'Winter Moon'.

So I guess the guy sitting down is the drummer?

[John]

Great photo Mark !

I have the same scope but not the jumper and haircut - I was a long haired motocycling lout when I was 20 

 

[Paul73]

Great photo. That is what we need. Groups of young people expanding their horizons.

The chap on he right is ricking the cardigan? He gets my vote for coolest astronomer!

Paul

[OutThereSomewhere]

I was 6 and lived in a new build house with wooden framed single glazed windows and venitian blinds just like in the OPs photo. My family watched the eclipse through some sheets of glass that my mum had somehow put smoke onto. Luckily we all survived that one!

Later on I grew up to be a long haired motorcycling lout. Luckily I survived that too!