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Article: Forty-five seconds in the life of an astronerd
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 28, 1995
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It was as dark as the night, yet not completely black: more a
deep and sombre blue. For a moment here in the still Indian gloom
it was hard to decipher the intricate patterns of white, but once
you focused you could make out that this was, indeed, a
navy-coloured T-shirt announcing its wearer to be a member of the
Loughton Astronomical Society.
The second most noticeable feature of an eclipse tour, after the
totality itself, is the selection of T-shirts on show. Every
occasion in the past 10 years when the sun has been completely
obscured by the moon is represented on someone's chest: Peru,
Hawaii, Indonesia, each logo revealing a part of the planet
recently conferred with solar favours.
Yet ...