Ogasawara offing total eclipse of the sun (1,988.3.18)
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Keietsu Sayama
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| I introduce the total eclipse of the sun tour first participation and Ogasawara offing total eclipse of the sun of March 18, 1988 when I was this time. A golden ring solar eclipse was seen in Okinawa in the last year, too, but put aim together for a total eclipse of the sun from the past. It was a lottery, but there was not application, and all the members participated in only 25 people when they surpassed 100 people in a solar eclipse tour reader special treatment of Quark ceased to publish later. |  |
| I worked as a student in those days in Sapporo. I am taken care of overnight in relative's house of Tokyo and I board Japan-maru and leave Harumi, Tokyo Wharf two days of a solar eclipse ago. So that Tokyo Bay was a calm, comfortable trip, but even rough, huge Japan circle can shake when I appear in the Pacific. I of seasickness vomit without can get a luxurious meal and. It was injected several of them by a doctor, but I knew that only seamen's insurance was usable in a ship and paid 3000yen which cried which cried. A state groggy in that purpose ships. |  |
| It was felt very for a long time for two days before arriving at the Ogasawara offing. Even if I appear on a deck on the way and take wind of the Kuroshio Current, seasickness is not br /oken off. The sky cleared, but an ocean current of the Izu Islands offing was early, and a ship shook well, too. |  |
| On a deck of Ogasawara ship. I during getting sober |  |
| In a floor of Japan-maru. I used a slide by a lecture of Mr. Sadao Murayama, and explanation of a golden ring zone was performed all existing obi via the Japanese Islands in future.
A world map of a total eclipse of the sun to be seen was introduced in future, but it was it with the photograph which only a head of a spectator looked it to without a figure being photographed because I started a flash bulb absorbedly and took it... |
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| But I arrive at a destination with an over thing surely in time! I arrived at the east offing sea of Iwo Jima precisely. I see other ships in the distance, too, and it is right sea fight. It is a strength that a merit of a ship looks for the place where it is fine and can move. The sea was calm, too, and the sky cleared a little up rank for some reason on the solar eclipse day. I gathered on a deck of all of you ship, and a person in coordination with machine parts or the person whom I lay at full length, and observed it made observation of person each actually. I observe the sun which I place myself in a corner of a deck, and is gradually missing. I was blue, and the sky thickened before long. |  |
| A ship was wrapped in dark darkness before long, and a total eclipse of the sun began. It was able to be br /anded on the naked eye for the first time. A black solar rotation is given wine blue, and a corona such as a round fluorescent lamp shines. State 360 was considered to look around the horizon for K at dark, and a mysterious scene opened. A dazzling diamond ring as if I lost the lingering sound before long shined, and a total eclipse of the sun that continued for 3 minutes 42 seconds was over. Although movement of a cloud became early, it was not able to try to be completely covered a cloud the sun of a crescent moon state. But, with a total eclipse of the sun as actually, I had look that all of you seemed to be very satisfied. |  |
| All the right photographs are marine states of the existing inside. It becomes dark so that the horizon goes to the top br /ightly. Not only a corona but also a state of the circumference was able to observe the first total eclipse of the sun comparatively for a long time.
But it is human reaction that is the most interesting even if I say anything. Love "eek" all, thought "ooh" seem to have indulged in emotion aloud. A heartthrob becomes early, and I am that considerable adrenalin was discharged |
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| It strikes Chichijima for the first time on the next day of a solar eclipse. I borrow a rent-a-car with the student who made friends in a ship and drive an island. But I have gone around it in 30 minutes. Though it was good, the student who came was disgusted with I stopped at a shop on the way, and having bought a picture postcard it seemed to be the postcard which I made in Taito-ku, and to watch a solar eclipse what from Taito-ku where next was. |  |
| The ship which died like the wreckage of the Pacific Wars else lay. I board Nippon ship at a port, and it is in Chichijima. The ship advanced to the north while gradually shaking. |  |
| When I was the night and thought it to be anything because I became noisy, the thing which seemed to be aurora seems to have been seen! ? I think, and a night sky did not look possibly, too, but it is it at this time when you should have watched starlit sky rank and regrets it. |  |
| Chichijima only financial institution. The day when I went closed on Saturday. I sent postal savings bankbook and 1,000 yen to Ogasawara YH beforehand and I depended to deposit it by the date when a total eclipse of the sun of March 18, 1988 was seen and pulled a bankbook to the next day direct YH and went for it, but a bankbook was sent to home since I seem to have forgotten a request, and it was deposited on Monday in the next week. |  |