Solar Eclipse in Germany, August 11th, 1999
The FIBUS team
And now: The FIBUS team at work...
A team of researchers was sent by FIBUS to observe the solar eclipse over
Germany on August 11th, 1999. The team travelled to Merzig, approximately 50 km
south of Trier. Weather conditions were extremely bad with 100% coverage until
11 o'clock. Fortunately then finally a few spots of blue sky opened up and
the eclipse could be observed at a cloud coverage of 70% to 90%. Exactly
during the short time of total eclipse a thin layer of clouds covered moon
and sun. Therefore all corona images are very faint and blurred. Total
eclipse time in that region was 1:50 minutes. Time of total eclipse was
12:29 noon. For the image shown below several images have been patched up
to produce a time series of images. First image is in the lower left hand
corner, time proceeds to the upper right.
Sun images over two hours time period.
The following camera equipment was used: Olympus OM-2n with 500mm lens
and special AstroSolar (TM) filter foil of optical density 5, except during
totality. Film material was 100 ASA slide film.
[Display images at higher resolution: Right click on image and "view"]
Additional information can be found at the University of Heilbronn
And even more information is located on the NASA pages
Very good survey on the medical side of the eclipse, and more links...
Nice page including video images of the totality
Great corona image here on Wendy's page, photographed in Bucharest
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