Photography by
David Cortner
  Sahara Desert 1973


Donald Menzel
Donald Menzel double-checking local circumstances.
Director Donald Menzel, the dean of eclipse chasing astronomers, uses a Hewlett-Packard HP35 to refine local circumstances -- the predicted times of the eclipse's stages, the duration of totality -- and the price of tea in the Sahara.

   
   



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