[Leica] Eclipse images

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks Jim, it's hard to get rid of things like these - anything 
mechanical and sentimental basically. I first was entranced by Bayko 
bricks and then a Meccano set, both now well gone, but I still have a 
wonderful Curta calculator, and most of my mechanical cameras.

Douglas


On 22/08/2017 04:09, Jim Nichols wrote:
> 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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