It is difficult to describe the emotions that the sky gives. With the stars that illuminate it, the auroras that color it and the eclipses that darken it. Celestial phenomena indescribable that the photographer from Bergamo Antonio Finazzi fixed in images that tell them. For this Monday it will be in Texas in the United States to immortalize the solar eclipse in North and Central America. Sixty-three years old, the photographer from Chiuduno left yesterday for Texas. His children are with him Erica and Giorgio, Simone Rossi from Chiuduno, Diego Bonata from Bariano and Luca Busi from Modena. «The total solar eclipse it is one of nature’s most spectacular astronomical events and is quite rare – explains Finazzi –. To see and photograph it, we will position ourselves near the city of San Antonio. In this area totality will last 4 and a half minutes, during which the sky will become very dark.”
Ready, not only the t-shirts to wear during the event, but also three cameras and two webcams: «I want to resume the entire sequence of the eclipse: the phase of totality with the Diamond, the Baily Beads, the protuberances and the crown; the eclipsed sun, but also Mars, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, the shadow of the advancing earth and the flying shadows.” Spectacular photos and videos by Finazzi, an astrophotography enthusiast, whose shots have already been published several times by NASA website. The only unknown remains the weather, which could compromise the vision of the eclipse: «At the moment the forecasts are uncertain. We will monitor the weather situation in advance and in case of clouds we will move by car to look for the best place.” The shadow zone will start from the South Pacific Ocean and cross Mexico, the United States and Canada and end in the Atlantic Ocean.
Learn more about the topic on the digital copy of L’Eco di Bergamo on 6 April
