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                  Images from Dublin Solar Eclipse Watch 1 August 2008 (Click on images to enlarge).

Vincent Hall waits for the Sun to reappear while a young astronomer checks our magazine.
Eamonn O'Fearchain with his home made Camera Obscura.
RTE TV News' Philip Bromwell films Astronomy Ireland Director Ben Emmett.
Budding astronomers queue to view the eclipse in binoculars fitted with safe AstroSolar filters.
Q102's Ray Shah was one of the many reporters from the media. We also had Irish Times, Today FM, 2FM, RTE TV News, physically at the event and dozens more like Ray Darcy and Dave Fanning called in to check how the eclipse was going.
                   Some of the crowd and the telescopes
Irish Times reporter talks to Astronomy Ireland Chairman David Moore for one of dozens of national and local media interviews that were done that day
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