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Solar Eclipse Giyani, Musina 2002/12/04

Samson Mongolele of the Giyani Science Centre, Giyani, Limpopo Province was one of our partners for the solar eclipse. Before the eclipse they carried out educational workshops. For the eclipse itself they organised a number of buses to travel to Musina in order to get into the path of totality. Some pictures taken by Samson with the camera supplied for the eclipse project are shown below.

testing viewers
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One workshop was carried out at BaPhalaborwa. Here participants try out their eclipse viewers.

orreries
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Giyani science centre made use of their own orrery (foreground) together with the one made in the HartRAO workshops to explain how eclipses occur. Studious notetaking seems to be going on here.

Musina
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For the eclipse, the buses travelled to the public venue at the showgrounds in Musina, where a large crowd gathered.

clouds
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Sunlight comes through a gap in the clouds shortly before totality. The light is already very dim.

cloud
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Totality! Excited watchers in the darkness attempt to capture the eclipse on film.

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Another view of eclipse watchers during totality.

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