FORT WORTH — From Texas to Brazil, a 105-year-old eclipse chaser from Fort Price has witnessed 12 photo voltaic eclipses in his life and he is prepared to observe his thirteenth on April 8.It began in 1963 when Laverne Biser packed up his luggage and headed for Maine to witness his first eclipse. Six many years later, his love for this uncommon celestial occasion has taken him locations he’d by no means visited earlier than — and he is been taking photographs of them ever since.
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“That is my pleasure and pleasure as a result of it is onerous to take,” he stated. “You needed to put your digital camera as much as a black sky…you hope you are going to level it in the proper route.”
One in all his favourite photographs he is taken was in 1979 throughout a photo voltaic eclipse in Williston, South Dakota.
105-year-old Laverne Biser has been chasing eclipses since 1963. He shares a photograph he took of his favourite eclipse in 1979 in Williston, South Dakota.
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Laverne Biser
“We have traveled everywhere in the world to see them,” Biser stated. “You see one, you need to see all of them. They’re so fairly.”RELATED STORY: Eclipse tourism anticipated to convey over $1B to Texas’ economyWhat makes this eclipse so particular, although, is that it is proper right here in his yard. His recommendation to viewers: Ensure you watch the whole eclipse.”With glasses, watch the entire thing, however take them off when it goes whole. Look how fairly it’s. You will say, ‘Oh… I need to see extra of those,'” Biser stated.Nevertheless, it is very important put security first, and there’s a threat of eye injury in case you’re not sporting protecting glasses proper earlier than and after the solar is totally coated. You may learn extra within the story linked under.RELATED STORY: Why do it’s important to put on glasses throughout a photo voltaic eclipse? Meteorologist Ray Petelin explains
Biser’s love for the cosmos even includes him constructing handmade telescopes. One of many largest in his store is over six ft tall and was constructed almost 60 years in the past.”I made the entire thing … I floor a mirror,” Biser stated. “It will probably take hours to weeks to floor a telescope mirror.”Biser graduated from Ohio State College in mechanical engineering in 1942. He moved to Fort Price to design airplanes at Carswell Airforce Base for the remainder of his profession. Nevertheless, his obsession with the cosmos started in his highschool science class.”I really like astronomy…I liked all of my science lessons,” he stated.The fun of watching eclipses will endlessly be one among his biggest passions.
“I am [almost] 106. They do not come however one or two, each couple of years,” Biser stated. “I could not see anymore. I could not see any extra eclipses.”
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Previous to becoming a member of CBS 11 Information in January 2014 as anchor and reporter, Ken was most not too long ago a reporter for WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. Previous to that, he was a information anchor and reporter at KVIA-TV in El Paso, the place he centered on crime and public security reporting.