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Super high tech

The eclipse camera
A top quality cardboard box with a foil covered hole (oh and a web camera - you can see the ethernet cable coming out the hand hole in the side). As usual my desk is a mess.

  

In 1999, Mike and Joseph broadcast the eclipse from their office in Cambridge using the latest in cardboard box technology. Assembled in, oh, minutes, we had about 50 people watching live. It was cloudy to start with, hence the fuzzy image, but the sun came out (and went out) beautifully later on.

1999 eclipse animation - 225k
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Unfortunately the gif animation below only represents about half the frames we shot - I can't seem to find the rest at the moment :(

You can see the broadcast image on the monitor of my old PC

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