VERY old solar (and lunar) image

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just found some prints of slides I took on August 11, 1999. The slides got damaged irreparably by water when moving house, but some prints and copies to negatives were made, so not all is lost. The prints were a bit scratched, but a quick scan and image processing session later, one at least gives some impression of what I saw that day.

Location: Just outside Sarreguemines, Lorraine, France

Camera: Contax RTS-II

Scope: C8

Mount: Vixen Great Polaris

Film: Fujichrome Provia 100

[E621Keith]

That's very nice. The corona and prominences are lovely.

I'd have never thought this came from damaged negatives.

[oldfruit]

Lovely image of what must have been a memorable day for you, thankfully you were lucky enough to have copied some pics so all was not lost.

[Montana]

A lovely picture! at least you saw the eclipse, I went to Cornwall and it was thick cloud. It was a great atmosphere though with all the people there when it went dark.

Alexandra

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Thanks for the comments! We were really lucky on this mirky day. We had just four minutes of sunshine, and they could not have been timed better. Just 60 seconds before totality the clouds parted, and thirty seconds after the end of totality the gap closed again. A very memorable day, indeed.

[LukeSkywatcher]

There is something just so special about a total solar eclipse. I just love images of them.

Great image.

[sheri_barri]

Thank you for sharing this. Would never have thought the original was damaged. So nice to see what I missed due to clouds in the Channel.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Thank you for sharing this. Would never have thought the original was damaged. So nice to see what I missed due to clouds in the Channel.

Thanks for that. Actually, I made some copies of the original slides onto film with my bellows, macro lens and slide duplication kit to get better dynamic range in print before the slides were damaged. The prints themselves have some signs of wear, but that I could correct with some morphological filtering.

[Carbon60]

Lovely image. I remember the day well, but like many others I was disappointed and frustrated by cloud.

Stu.

[Telrad]

Beautiful image, I love totality images like this.

The corona looks amazing!