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The Eclipse Express
Herbert Broadbent – ‘Bart’ to his colleagues of the Astronomical Photographic Division – frowned at the cryptic official radio message which had just been sent to him. It said briefly:
Prepare for departure to Ceylon on February 26 to photograph total solar eclipse. Dr Murchinson expedition. Solar Photographs Division.
‘There are times,’ he commented, ‘when I get heartily tired of tearing about the world just on the spec of photographing something which never lasts more than five minutes at most!’
Prepare for departure to Ceylon on February 26 to photograph total solar eclipse. Dr Murchinson expedition. Solar Photographs Division.
‘There are times,’ he commented, ‘when I get heartily tired of tearing about the world just on the spec of photographing something which never lasts more than five minutes at most!’
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