Total Solar Eclipse - August 11th 1999

The following image (click to enlarge) is a composite of the RGB-channels (red: upper left, green: upper right, blue: lower left. all contrast enhanced), plus the original image (lower right).

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This image (click to enlarge) is a composite of three images from the SOHO telescope, and the R-channel from the previous picture.


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The Diamond Ring a few seconds after totality (click to enlarge).


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Even later...

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Picture Information

SOHO images
The sun as seen in extreme UV by the EIT:
upper left ("blue"): 1999/08/11 11:48 UT (13:48 MESZ), 17.1nm (Fe IX/X)
lower left ("orange"): 1999/08/11 12:02 UT (14:02 MESZ), 30.4nm (He II)
The sun as seen in red light by the MDI:
upper right ("yellow") : 1999/08/11 8:15 UT (10:15 MESZ), 676.8nm (Ni I)
The images have been rotated 42° counterclockwise to match the orientation of the photographs. The sun's poles are therefore roughly top left and bottom right in respect to the disk.
The high resolution images taken by SOHO's LASCO, EIT, and MDI instruments, as well as Yohkoh's X-ray telescope at the time of eclipse can be found here.
Photographs
For the totality phase I used a Minolta 7000 with 500mm mirror lens fixed focus (f/8) and a 2x teleconverter.
Exposure data on Ektachrome 100: 1sec f/16 1000mm
The Diamond Ring was shot using a 70-300mm zoom (f/5.6).
Exposure data on Ektachrome 100: 1sec f/8 300mm and 1/750sec f/8 300mm
Weather conditions
During totality there was still a thin layer of clouds in front of the sun/moon.
The pictures were taken on the Totenkopf, south of Zweibrücken, Germany (about 49.2°N 7.2°E) at approx. 12:31 MESZ.

All images (except from the SOHO/Yohkoh telescopes of course!) © 1999 by Wolfram Kresse.