Layout of viewing site. Telescope is a 60 mm f/15 refractor with 22 mm Kellner eyepiece used. Images of Sun projected onto some paper and then photographed.
Getting to the Annular Eclipse
Projection technique shown in image above.
Appearance of sky just before start of eclipse.
Near first contact
A little later on...
and on..
about a third of the way there..
almost halfway there=)
about halfway there...
Past the halfway mark...
The Sun's disc now looks like the letter 'C'.
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The Annular Eclipse
What the sky looked like near annular eclipse
Annular eclipse!!! Image #1
Image #2
Image #3
Image #4: Somewhat enhanced image of annular phase. Ran out of film
after that, so no post-annular partial phase images=(
Page created May 6, 2001
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