|
Mrs. Reggie Billings and her 7-year- old daughter, Rene, were in a crowd at Gates Planetarium in City Park to view partial eclipse of sun in 1977. Twenty- four per cent of the sun disappeared about 2:35 p.m. Wednesday as the shadow of the moon crossed its surface. Gates set up a telescope for public viewing. The sun, left, took on the aspect of a moon when the moon passed between it and earth. Photograph taken at the National Oceanic and Space Environment Laboratory in Boulder shows intervening moon and a temporary facet of the sun-a flare. The flare, which normally disturbs radio communications on earth, appears as light spots at center. (Photo by Duane Howell/The Denver Post)
|
