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Like Paul, by 1970 I was armed with my Nikon camera and Kodachrome film. In searching for my earliest
Kodachrome slide for use in the article, I didn’t find the greens of summer. The earliest Kodachrome slide I
found was a picture of the noonday
sun! Why would I have done that?--
Probably because I could. Kodachrome
is a daylight film, and my
Nikon camera had a shutter speed of
1000 th of a second and a 55 mm macrolens
with an f/stop down to f/32. On
May 30, 1984, I once again took a picture
of the sun, this time with my
Nikon camera and a 135 mm lens and,
of course, Kodachrome film. It was a
day when geologists with Mississippi
Geological Survey joined astronomy
buffs at Flint Creek Water Park near
Wiggins to see an annular eclipse of
the sun (Figures 2-3). Figure 3 is a
composite of eight pictures I took with
the 135 mm lens (not a telescope) just
before, during, and after the moment
of total eclipse.