Attached - movie of Meteosat 7 Visible imagery during the eclipse, and I'm awaiting the MODIS imagery from Aqua and Terra

Doug

Doug:

And from my back garden!

Bob Shaw

I got some lousy pictures with my camera and a pair of observation glasses (talk about amateur astronomy )
I'll try to post them later today, we got about 92% coverage in Crete.

From ISS
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images...ss012e21351.jpg
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images...ss012e21343.jpg

Envisat sees the eclipse's shadow over Africa

An unsual view of the eclipse from space as Envisat's MERIS captures the
totality path slicing through northwestern Nigeria on 29 March 2006.

Full story:

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMKZO59CLE_index_0.html

Ok, here is a couple of shots from today's solar eclipse.

This is from my workplace parking (60% occultation):
Click to view attachment
(still frame from VHSC videocam... poor quality, no additional optics)

Spaceweather.com has a big collection of total solar eclipse images here:

http://spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_29mar06.htm

Here are few eclipse shots of mine, taken in Side, Turkey:

Diamond ring before the second contact:
http://voyager.lupomesky.cz/fotky/eclipse2006-1.jpg

Corona shot:
http://voyager.lupomesky.cz/fotky/eclipse2006-2.jpg

I tried prominences (there's only one at 12 o'clock):
http://voyager.lupomesky.cz/fotky/eclipse2006-3.jpg

Third contact:
http://voyager.lupomesky.cz/fotky/eclipse2006-4.jpg

Everything taken with Canon EOS 20D and 200 mm lens.

Borek

Borek:

Nice images - I was struck on the day by how few (zero!) sunspots there were, leading to few prominences.

Bob Shaw

Very good. I am impressed. What film? exposure? filter?

EDIT: Oops I see the EOS 20D is digital, so no film.

Does anyone have the image of the total solar eclipse of March 7, 1970 as
shown from space in the August, 1970 issue of National Geographic Magazine?

Were they the first ones of their kind?

Some more eclipse images from space:

From the ISS - Total Solar Eclipse of March 29, 2006

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/...p3?img_id=17230

Total Solar Eclipses of 1991 and 1999:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/...p3?img_id=17228

All shots are unfiltered; pic 2 (large corona shot) is ISO 400, f/4.5, 1/60. Can't recall other shots and I'm at work now, so I can't see EXIF.
I am quite happy with the pictures considering I wanted to see eclipse with my own eyes in the first place, and only then, if conditions allow, snap some pics. Also 200 mm lens is hardly sufficient.
On 1999 eclipse I made an eclipse movie instead of still photography.

Borek

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060407.html

The Crown of the Sun

Credit & Copyright: Koen van Gorp

Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere or corona is an awesome and inspirational sight. The subtle shades and shimmering features of the corona that engage the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single picture. But this composite of 33 digital images ranging in exposure time from 1/8000 to 1/5 second comes very close to revealing the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The telescopic views were recorded from Side, Turkey during the March 29 solar eclipse, a geocentric celestial event that was widely seen under nearly ideal conditions. The composite also captures a pinkish prominence extending just beyond the upper edge of the eclipsed sun.

There's a video of the eclipse on the web that shows the complete time span of the total phase:
http://www.spider50.de/ (the links top left)

Sven Henning recorded it on a hill (Arap Dagi, 183m) close to Antalya (Turkey). If your connection speed allows it remotely, the 50MB mpeg video is really amazing and much better than the small versions! Especially on the hill they "could watch" the coming and going of the deepest shadow.

Slightly another type of eclipse image:

http://www.astroclub-radebeul.de/tmp/lol.jpg

But also a classical (eclipse) image between full and none "occultation"

Let's just hope nobody is tempted to add photos of a Full Moon.

Bob Shaw

Why we are so lucky to have Luna as our moon when it comes to
making total solar eclipses compared to the other planets:

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_eg...pse_060427.html

But we'd better enjoy each one we get, because in just 500 million years
the best we'll have are only annular ones, no more totalities.