1999 Partial Solar Eclipse from Scanned Photos

[Stargazer33]

As the forecast for Friday is pretty bad for where I live I thought I would scan in the photos that I took with my old SLR film camera of the partial solar eclipse from 1999.

These pictures were taken from my parents back garden with a home made solar filter over the camera lens which was either a 70-210 zoom EF zoom at 210 or a 500mm mirror lens. I won't tell you what the filter was made of as it was a last minute Heath Robinson affair and I don't want to encourage others to do what I foolishly did back then!   I got away with it but someone else might not be so lucky.

I don't know why I missed first contact, but I did. I probably had no idea what time the eclipse started and of course I only had 36 exposures to cover the whole event.

Anyway, if I manage to get anything like this this time I will be well chuffed!

[Stu]

Great stuff! Fingers crossed we get something similar on Friday!!

[wookie1965]

I went to Torquay and watched it I was that in awe forgot to to pictures but it was the best experience ive had besides seeing Saturn in my scope.

[davedownsouth]

I caught a ferry to France to watch this mid-channel.  Brilliant day out, although getting off the Ferry in France, only to get back on it 30 minutes later was a bit frustrating

[laudropb]

Great stuff. It brings back memories. I set up a 60mm refractor at work and projected the event onto a homemade screen, much to the delight of my fellow workers

[Montana]

Fantastic images :) I was in Salcombe and it stayed cloudy throughout, I never even saw a wiff of a partial even, no breaks at all

Alexandra

[Stargazer33]

Thanks! Looking at 'Clear Outside' I've got 100%  cloud cover at 08:00, 99% at 09:00, 1% at 10:00 then 0% until 13:00!

I'm hoping that the clouds are going to blow through a bit quicker so that I get that two hour clear window around the time of maximum.