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Unread 08-15-2017, 05:02 PM   #15
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I was visiting Vieques PR during the 1998 total eclipse. It got pretty darned dark, but not literally as dark as night. There is always a bit of corona, at least, which peeks from behind the moon. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono...8/TSE1998.html
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