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COVID VIGNETTE: A solar eclipse brings back memories
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By now you've likely heard of our looming 4:38 p.m. sky show? It reminds me of another such show 52 years ago...

About the only star clusters I knew then were the Big Dipper with its North Star , and the Pleiades, known as the Seven Sisters. From Reg I learned to recognize a few more, including the winter constellation Orion, known as The Hunter, and his bright-eyed Dog Star Sirius.

So the next day we drove east and parked with other cars beside a hayfield near Antigonish. Already groups of people were gathering, chatting and waiting for the supreme moment when all but the sun's rim would turn black, leaving us in darkness with only its fiery circular corona showing.

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