WAA Tour to Libya's Total Solar Eclipse

March 26 — April 6, 2006

Images: Georg Zotti
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March 29: Eclipse Day!

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Good Morning, Sun!

EXIF Tag Calibration...

These shots are just to show the time offset between camera time (for EXIF timestamps) and GPS time. The fisheye images taken during the eclipse will be available at a later date.

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The observers

(images by the undersigned; to be completed)

First Contact


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Partiality


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The sickle gets narrow. Reaching final focus.

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But all focusing shots don't help when focus changes by taking off the filter...

Totality!

2nd Contact: 12:14:16


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Looking again through the viewfinder, I saw that the focus had shifted! Bad luck! The next series is much more promising:

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From these, I made these composites.
The left is quite natural, the right shows the New Moon
"caught in the act" inside the Sun's disk.
And another one!

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Maximum: 12:16:19


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Strange trouble with the automated tethered Fisheye camera sadly took much of my visual observing time. I should have left it as it was, repair attempts in this precious darkness are futile. I just made it back to...

Third Contact: 12:18:23


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Departing Partiality

Ignored by many observers, this phase still is there to be observed.

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Fourth Contact: 13:38:47


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Yalla, Yalla!

The drivers called to hurry up. I had originally thought we would have time enough to re-pack everything, so my tent was still up. (One tripod traveled in my main bag.) But suddenly it had been taken down, and I had to get my stuff into my bag in the open, sandy field! Then the long way back started.

Waw an-Namus, revisited

"Waw an-other"

Nearby, there was another crater, name unknown.

Almost Martian Landscape

Thank You and Good Night!

All Sky: Twilight, Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and Illumination of Ecliptical Region!

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