PhotoFiles: Spotting the eclipse in Lincoln
From the Countdown to Totality: Your updating guide to the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse series
Look at eclipses of the past in Lincoln through these archive photos.
1963 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
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Ken Hill (left) and 12-year-old Dick Frye use what was described as "the preferred amateur technique" to view the July 20, 1963, solar eclipse, namely seeing a reflection inside the box from rays coming through a small hole on the opposite side.
1963 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
- Updated
Dozens of eclipse watchers gathered on the University of Nebraska campus to look at a telescope's projection of the moon's journey between the Earth and the sun during the total eclipse of the sun on July 20, 1963.
1979 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
- Updated
The Feb. 26, 1979, partial eclipse of the sun is captured over the Capitol sower.
1963 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
- Updated
A projection shows that the "half-moon" Lincolnites saw during the July 20, 1963, solar eclipse was actually the eclipsed sun.
1970 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
- Updated
Students try to catch a glimpse of the March 7, 1970, eclipse.
1954 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
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A solar eclipse was captured over Lincoln on June 30, 1954.
1979 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
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Saratoga Elementary sixth-grader Chad Forte gazes carefully at the Feb. 26, 1979, solar eclipse through a darkened glass wigh some technical advice from Scott Loss.
1979 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
- Updated
Sekhar Chivukla (left) of the Prairie Astronomy Club explains the Feb. 26, 1979, solar eclipse to Lance Gryrear (right). Lincolnites lined up to see the eclipse on the solar telescope at Hyde Observatory.
1979 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
- Updated
UNL student Daniela O'Keefe glimpses the sun's eclipse through a small viewer made of a playing card and a double thickness of black and white negative film on Feb. 26, 1979.
1979 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
- Updated
Two Lincolnites try to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse on Feb. 26, 1979.
1994 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
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An annular solar eclipse darkens the sky over the Capitol Sower on May 10, 1994.
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1963 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
Ken Hill (left) and 12-year-old Dick Frye use what was described as "the preferred amateur technique" to view the July 20, 1963, solar eclipse, namely seeing a reflection inside the box from rays coming through a small hole on the opposite side.
1963 eclipse
- Journal Star file photo
Dozens of eclipse watchers gathered on the University of Nebraska campus to look at a telescope's projection of the moon's journey between the Earth and the sun during the total eclipse of the sun on July 20, 1963.
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