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Takahashi Sky Mount equatorial drive via four D-cell batteries
Minolta X-700 camera with data-back for automatic operation and time imprint on photos
Meade 1000 mm f10 lens, with Minolta 2X doubler during partial phases
Tuthill Solar Skreen filter mounted on poster board, glued to a block of foam to snugly fit the Meade lens
Nikon FM2 camera for the multiple exposure photograph, protected from the mid-day sun between exposures
with the white sleeping bag cover, Nikkor 50 mm lens at f16 with ND8 + ND4 filters at 1/4000 seconds
and a 5 second exposure with no filters during the central eclipse.
Radio Shack time cube for WWV time signal, and weather radio. Solar panel to charge extra 12 volt wet-cell car battery,
which operates the WB6RSS/XE2 80M-10M ICOM-735 ham radio and an Emerson XLC-555 five inch black/white TV/AM/FM/Cassette player.
The television was tuned to a La Paz city television channel during the eclipse, and the entire event
was audio recorded on a Sony TCM-4 cassette recorder.
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