04-06-15 10:13 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Solar eclipse   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <5523B403.13836.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    EV> 03-21-15 12:37 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Solar eclipse   
      
    HG> Look ma at the date above!   
      
   Howdy! Holger,   
      
   I get caught up with doing other things - either with the computer or   
   without the computer - and don't get to read messages and reply to them   
   until the message is stale.   
      
   I ain't changed, have I?   
      
   Another thing that happened is that I got a spurt of messages in the   
   DOVE NET echo that hasn't had any messages in it since the first week   
   of January 2015 and I  was reading a lot of them and then realized that   
   I wasn't reading messages in the Windows and Ham echos as I should,   
   so I repented and started reading messages in the echos that I am   
   (sorta) active in.   
      
    HG> GM Ed,   
      
    EV> Thanks for the update about the solar eclipse.   
    EV> Too bad the WX didn't cooperate that day.   
      
    HG> It wasn't too bad since we could see the sun and the eclipse   
    HG> through the thin cloud layer.   
      
   I'm glad that You could see some of the eclipse.   
   It was that way the day I saw the solar eclipse back in the 60's.??   
      
    EV> Just wondering? Had You already heard of the eclipse before I wrote   
    EV> my post?   
      
    HG> Yes, of course.   
      
    EV> IIRC I remember in the 1960's a solar eclipse occured in my area and   
    EV> I used a piece of paper with a hole punched in it to put the image   
    EV> on another piece of paper so I could see it.   
      
    HG> Well, I used a piece of unexposed but developed piece of 36 mm   
    HG> film. Since I've used a lot of 36 mm films in my cameras it was   
    HG> easy to find such a piece at either end of developed film   
    HG> material.   
      
   My eyes opened up when I saw the film referred to as 36 mm.   
   24 mm x 36 mm is the size of a full frame image on "35 mm" film that my   
   older camera(s) used.   
      
   Was 36 mm meant to be 35 mm when You typed it???? ??   
      
    EV> The only other eclipse I've seen was a eclipse of the moon.   
      
    HG> Eclipses of the moon are quite common. There was one very   
    HG> recently.   
      
   Since I retired, if I am up at night I'm probably doing something in   
   the computer room instead of looking at the sky.   
   73   
      
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