Retired engineer Laverne Biser is an eclipse aficionado. The 105-year-old has seen a dozen of them, and the total solar eclipse on April 8 will be his 13th.
Retired engineer Laverne Biser has built a lot of things, including his own telescopes."I was interested in astronomy all of my life, ever since high school," Biser said.Biser is an eclipse aficionado. The 105-year-old has seen a dozen of them, and the total solar eclipse on April 8 will be his 13th."My first solar eclipse was 1963. I’ve got a list of them right there on the table," Biser said. "1963, 1972, 79, 84, 88, 91, 94, 98, 99, 2012, 2017, 2023.
I drove up there to see that," he recalled. "You see one, you want to see them all, and everybody yells, ‘Hey, look at that.’"Biser, who lives in Fort Worth, said he’ll be with his daughter in Plano on April 8."Over here, I’m at the edge of the pattern and it doesn’t last very long. Over there is closer to the middle. It’ll last three or four minutes over there. That’s where we’re going to go. My daughter is there in Plano," Biser explained.
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