My brother-in-law got some pretty good pictures from Albuquerque - though none at maximum. (Albuquerque was also in the path of maximum occlusion).
We got some natural lensing from some of the trees, and I was able to briefly get a small image through my binoculars - but trying to hold a pair of small binoculars (with only one eyepiece cap off) steady while projecting an image onto the other hand is neither a good way to get a high-quality image, nor easy to maintain.
I recall first noticing the natural lens effect during a partial, or partial annular, eclipse visible in Albuquerque sometime between 1984 and 1989 (most likely in 1987, 1988 or 1989). In this case it was the cord holes in the Venetian Blinds in a south-facing classroom in Mitchell Hall at The University of New Mexico. I had people later that day try to claim that these weren't eclipse images.
I also remember seeing a prior annular eclipse that happened to pass over the Chicago area, with the maximum close enough to lunchtime that a bunch of us headed out from work to the Deer Grove forest preserve with our lunches to watch.
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We got some natural lensing from some of the trees, and I was able to briefly get a small image through my binoculars - but trying to hold a pair of small binoculars (with only one eyepiece cap off) steady while projecting an image onto the other hand is neither a good way to get a high-quality image, nor easy to maintain.
I recall first noticing the natural lens effect during a partial, or partial annular, eclipse visible in Albuquerque sometime between 1984 and 1989 (most likely in 1987, 1988 or 1989). In this case it was the cord holes in the Venetian Blinds in a south-facing classroom in Mitchell Hall at The University of New Mexico. I had people later that day try to claim that these weren't eclipse images.
I also remember seeing a prior annular eclipse that happened to pass over the Chicago area, with the maximum close enough to lunchtime that a bunch of us headed out from work to the Deer Grove forest preserve with our lunches to watch.