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| Rooisand ... September 2006
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Rooisand winter gave way to spring at the end of August. Flowers appeared all
over the farm - without a single drop of rain. Here are some images:
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Bushmen on Tour
Rooisand Observatory had a group of very special visitors on 10
September 2006. Windhoek tour operator Carsten Möhle of Bwana Tours was
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Namibia with the inhabitants
of an entire little Bushman village in the north to show them their home
country. None of them had ever left the familiar surroundings of their village
before. On the way from Windhoek to the coast the party stopped at Rooisand to
see the Observatory. The observatory was of particular interest because the
night sky and celestial bodies feature prominently in the oral tradition of the
Bushmen.
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On
22 September a partial eclipse of the sun was visible over Rooisand. The
celestial spectacle could be seen early in the afternoon, from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m.
Attending expert guests saw to it that our farm staff and other
guests were able to admire the phenomenon through our large binoculars,
equipped with a safety filter film. A series of pictures of the eclipse was
taken with a digital camera and solar prism at the observatory's Zeiss
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Just
26 hours after the solar eclipse (new moon) our guests were able to watch the
moon set: it was still an extremely slim crescent at that stage and an
extraordinary sight. |
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