Eclipse Photos
Total Solar Eclipse, 11 August 1999
Montchâlons, France
Photo 1 (approximately 09:25 GMT)
Photo 2 (approximately 10:00 GMT)
Photo 3 (10:23 GMT)
Photo 4 (10:25 GMT)
For shutterbugs:
The first three photos were shot on Ektachrome Elite-400 film
with an Olympus OM-2,
using a telescope lens with f = 500 mm, augmented to
f = 1000 mm by a x2 converter. The camera was mounted on
a tripod and the lens covered
with a mylar sheet. Settings were an f-stop of 8, and an exposure
time of 1/500 s.
The fourth photo, during totality, was shot on Gold 1000 Kodak film,
with another Olympus OM-2 simply coupled to a 200 mm telephoto
lens, and hand held (no tripod).
No mylar filter either. I must confess I did not note the f-stop or
exposure -- No time in the frenzy of the 2 minutes of totality.
Montchâlons is a small village a few km SSE of Laon,
the prefecture of the Département of Aisne, about 165 km NE of
Paris.
Annular Eclipse, 10 May 1994
Photo 5 (approximately 17:00 GMT)
This picture was taken in Central Illinois, within 1 km of the center path
of the eclipse. The photographic settings were similar to those of Photos
1-3 above.
Transit of Venus, 08 June 2004
Photo A
Photo B
Photo C
These pictures were taken on the shore of Lake Michigan, in front of the
South Beach parking lot at Northwestern University, between 05:30 and
05:45 CDT (10:30 and 10:45 GMT).
The photographic settings were similar to those of Photos
1-3 above, except the film was Kodak Gold 400 and no mylar sheet was used.
And that seagull flew by just on time...
