[Leica] Eclipse images

[Jim Nichols]

Hi Douglas,

A beautiful instrument, and amazing penmanship. Thanks for the story.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/21/2017 8:36 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Nice to see the eclipse images from people. To be honest, I wouldn't 
> have even tried to take any images as the spectacle of totality would 
> probably have blown my mind.
>
> We had a very minor (4%) eclipse over here in Ireland at 8.00pm, and 
> beforehand I started to make a pinhole projector out of a couple of 
> pieces of stiff paper.  This was a bit hit and miss. Then I remembered 
> something, and went hunting for it. Having successfully located the 
> solution, I watched the paltry eclipse through my Dad's 130 year old 
> sextant which has pretty powerful colour filters.
>
> 23 years after my Dad died, it was nice to resurrect his sextant to 
> see the moon bite. Instead of eclipse images, here's a couple of his 
> sextant and his 2nd Mate's ticket taken with my iPhone. His 1st Mate's 
> ticket is missing, and I understand from my mother that he either had 
> got a his Master's ticket or else was studying for it..
>
> Apparently, his insistence to me, when I had issues with my teachers, 
> that he had been an exemplary school pupil turned out to be bigly fake 
> news. My uncle said he had been a difficult rebellious individual, and 
> that he had been expelled from two schools. In desperation, his father 
> had sent him away to sea as a merchant ship's cadet with the Reardon 
> Smith line based out of Cardiff. After circling the world a number of 
> times over seven years, sanity prevailed, and he returned home to 
> Cork, studied for his matriculation, and having got that, went to 
> University College Cork on a scholarship where he got his degree. The 
> only sailing he did later was with me and my brothers.
>
> Sextant by T.L. Ainsley of South Shields, England from the 1880s. 
> iPhone 5S.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Sextant.jpg.html
>
> Certificate of Competency for Second Mate from 1930. iPhone 5S.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Second+Mate+Cert.jpg.html
>
> Douglas
>
>
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