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It’s 100 Percent Safe to Stare at These Amazing Photos of Peak Eclipse in Washington
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Washingtonian Staff
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August 21, 2017
Photographs by Jeff Elkins.
The sun, mostly blocked by the moon, photographed in Rockville Monday afternoon.
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