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Included below are photographs from the 1998 Total Solar Eclipse as seen from Boca Tabla National Park on the island of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Click here for a descriptive narrative of this event

All of the 1998 Total Solar Eclipse images were taken on February 26, 1998, from Boca Tabla, Curacao, N.A. All of the photographs (save one) were taken at prime focus of a Celestron C-8 telescope with optical reduction to f/6.3. ASA 100 Kodak Professional color negative film (PRN) was used. The smaller scale image was also taken on Kodak Professional color negative film, with an 85mm lens at f/2.8. Exposure was 1/30th of a second. Cameras were ancient Pentax Spotmatics.

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