Franco Martinelli wrote: > I have enjoyed to see some pictures taken inside cathedrals through the > sundial hole while the last sun eclipse was near its maximum partial phase. > So we have decided to build a web page on our site including such kind of > interesting images.
... > http://www.nauticoartiglio/almanacco/Aa_ecli_13.htm Thanks for this Web site! I'm happy to see that several people indeed succeeded in photographing the crescent Sun as it projected onto Italy's famous meridian markers. However, I believe you left out a few letters in the URL above; the following worked for me: http://www.nauticoartiglio.lu.it/almanacco/Aa_ecli_13.htm By the way, Franco, you might want to mark the date 8 June 2004 on your calendar. That's when these very same pinhole-type meridian markers will catch the last moments of a much rarer spectacle -- Venus's transit across the solar disk! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Mark Gingrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Leandro, California
