Total solar eclipse Mar. 18, 1988
This was the
second total eclipse Liz and I witnessed. We were situated on the roof
of the
university at General Santos City on Mindanao
Island in the Philippines. The sun was located
in a wonderful clear patch of sky. The
eclipsed sun looked like a celestial dragonfly with four
coronal wings. There were also two large
prominences opposite each other.
My first ever sketch of a coronal streamer
from my notebook, drawn shortly after the eclipse
sketch of the 1988 eclipse from my notebook
made immediately after the eclipse