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to 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, shadow bands and Computer aided eclipse
My first total eclipse, on 1999 aug 11 took place under a thick layer of clouds near Metz in France. Although i did not succeed in taking good photographs, neither saw the corona, we saw the approach of the lunar shadow very excellent. The clouds formed a good screen for viewing the shadow. And we were not disturbed by Baileys beads, shadow bands, coronal beauty and othe eclipse stuff like that ;-(
Nevertheless, my meteorological
registrations succeded,
using a notebook-Computer with self-written software for meteo
registrations
an photocamera operation.
Click on the image to get my comlete report of the eclipse 1999!
To get that page in German,
,
click here.
My next eclipse
was the great 'Africlipse' of 2001, enjoyed in Zimbabwe.
Get
my report in German or
English
language
We got excellent photos, weather recordings and videos. Download videos of the shadow bands (3 seconds, MPEG-1 (552 kB, 9 seconds, MPEG-2,783 kB and 3rd contact, 2 seconds, 375 kB)! All to be seen on my above website.
im schatten. A virtual exhibition of my photos and texts of Adalbert Stifter (Grerman language)
A great partial one was the eclipse of 2003-31-05, with its maximum at sunrise.
I took registrations of the dawn, showing clearly the drop of light before sunrise.
Read
my report in German or
English
language.
Here you get picutures of my venus
and mercury
transit, showing the venus' atmosphere and providing images
for determinign
the solar parallax.
Text in German and English.
Near Jumilla, Spain, i saw the annular eclipse close (500m) to the southern grazing border.
my
report is only available in German language
2006 i was at the Jalu Eclipse Campsite in Libya. Here is my report of the superb desert eclipse.
We have had optimal conditions for observing.
In 2008 i observed the eclipse high in the arctic regions Franz-Joseph-Land.
See my preliminary 2008 webpage for my full report.
I observed the Asian eclipse in Wuhan, China. Check my website for a full report of the longest eclipse of the century.
Are you fascinated by the mysterious shadow bands during
a solar eclipse?
Learn more about it in my
shadow bands explanation page in
English
or German language
with videos, pictures
and explanations.
Eclipses
For enjoying eclipse viewing without abandoning photography and meteo i used a portable and battery-powered organiser. This device records temperature, windspeed and sky brightness as well as triggers several automatic photo cameras. On my computer i use the software Eclipse Orchestrator. It can trigger several cameras, one of them via USB with predefined exposure settings.
For
more details
see my
eclipse organiser page
(German) and
technical documentation of the interface (English).
A timer software for eclipses, runing with windows or on a Pocket PC is my "Eclipse Observer", see below.
Meanwhile i am using a C-Control microcontroller for this purpose. See my Documentation (in German language).
Do you like an eclipse-desktop for your pocket PC (PPC)?
Here you get it: eclipse.tsk
Download the file, send it to your PDA an chose as today screen.
On the right you see my EclipseObserver for the PC or a PPC. Look here for more details.
What else do you need? Of
course, the
Eclipse
Calculator! A javascript calculator, working fine offline
with the a browser or on a PPC.
back to my German Homepage
Links for solar
observers and special eclipse links (both in German)
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last updated:
2009-10-31
URL:
http://www.strickling.net/eclipse_pro.htm
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