Setting up a display stand on the lawns alongside the Town Hall in Krugersdorp.
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Sam Rametse and Bogoshi Mogadima set up spotting scopes to project images of the Sun.
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The Sun shortly after the start of the eclipse.
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Sam gets his first customer, using an eclipse viewer to look at the Sun safely. An interesting feature of this eclipse was the grass seemed purple in some photos.
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The crowds start to gather.
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Passers-by are surprised at what they see.
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Deeper into the eclipse.
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Anacletta Koloko searches for more victims while Bogoshi is clearly impressed by the sight.
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Close-up of the projected image of the partially eclipsed Sun.
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Mother and daughter - her ensemble matching the eclipse viewer - take in the eclipse.
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School's out but its time for some extra-curricular education.
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These ladies were particularly impressed.
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More schoolboys get into the action.
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Older passersby were equally impressed.
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Mid-eclipse. The HartrAO weather station shows that the temperature is about two degrees cooler now than on the previous two days at this time, when the weather was similar.
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Bogoshi explains to a schoolboy what is happening.
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projected image near mid-eclipse.
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Another keen spectator.
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This little girl had assistance from Anacletta.
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Sam assists a man in a ethnic robe.
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These ladies were impressed.
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The Friday afternoon shoppers multiplied as the afternoon wore on.
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This girl and her mother get a look as the eclipse starts to draw to a close.