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[i]Unlike most eclipse flights, this one has no margin for error, and we must intercept the right spot at the right moment, flying perpendicular to the shadow as it begins its race across the ocean at nearly 4 km/s. If successful, it would be a first.[/i]
[i]As seen from 42,000 feet over the Central Atlantic, some 600 miles southeast of the island of Bermuda, the sun puts on a near instantaneous show of totality. Our plane, intercepting in a manner never done before, was about one second off for central totality. Some telephoto shots suffered from turbulence.[/i]
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