The images of October
3, 2005 Annular Solar Eclipse,
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by Lorenzo Comolli
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The images of October
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Spain 2005
Cumbre del Sol - Cabo de la Nao (100km SE of
Valencia)
38°43'09.7" N 0°09'34.0"
E 430m heigth
This are some of the images of the
October 3, 2005 Annular Solar Eclipse, from the skys of Spain.
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All the
images of the entrance phase, click on the image at left. Number of images: 12 Kodak Elite Film 100 ISO, Pentax 75 telescope, 75mm f/6.7 with two focal multipliers, so an equivalent focal of 2000mm at f/27, time exposures of 1/500 and 1/250 s, Astrosolar photographic filter D=3 and yellow filter. |
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All the images of the
Annular phase, click on the image at left. |
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All the images of the exit
phase, click on the image at left. |
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I've
collected all the images of the ecipse in a picture that
show the evolution of the complete eclipse. For the hires image, click on the image at left. |
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The
animation of the complete eclipse, click on the image at
left (GIF animation 2Mb) Number of images in the animation: 39 |
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Movies
of the eclipse obtained with a MiniDV digital videocamera
Panasonic NV-DS15, with an optical multiplier, obtaining
an optical zoom of 60x. Solar filter in Astrosolar D=5
(and so the Sun is white). In the two movies at left (click for the AVI movies of 300kb, DivX 5.2 compression) are recorded the initial and final phases of the annularity. |
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Only an
image for describing all the eclipse. This is the sequence
that show the Sun and the Moon at 5 minutes intervals,
from 8.02 UT to 10.02 UT. Here the sequence is composited
with a landscape image, imaged pointing toward the Sun a
few minutes after the annularity, making a photo realistic
composite. The original slide with the sequence indeed
have a black sky. Kodak Elite Film 100 ISO, 55mm objective. |
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For
other landscape images, click on the image at left. Number of images: 11 |
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Both
Alessandro and I recorded the temperature and relative
humidity with digital thermoigrometers. During this
eclipse the drop of the temperature whas very small, about
half a degree Celsius, nothing if compared to the -7°C whe
have recorded in the 1999 totale eclipse. Click on the left image for the plots of:
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Actors: Lorenzo Comolli, Alessandro Gambaro, Alberto Gianni, Marco Scardia, Emmanuele Sordini and many other amatour astronomers from all over the Europe. All the hours are in central Europe summer time (TU+2).
h 23.00 of the day before: we go
to sleep after a dinner based on typical "paella valenciana",
we have a look at the sky and it's clear, we see the Milky
Way!!! Good!
h 6.00: we wake up and open the
window, and... NOOOO, completely cloudy!!! But we don't
discourage and we prepare quickly.
h 7.00: after a short trip, we
are on the observing location, named Cumbre del Sol, a hill
that overlook the Mediterranean Sea. There is a wonderful view
of the Cabo de la Nao. Unfortunately the sky is covered, but
some holes in the clouds give us some hope. We start to
assemble our instruments, and I need a lot of time because
I've divided my instruments in a lot of very small parts for
putting inside the suitcase...
h 8.00: the Sun
rise in the clouds, but a hole show us some light rays. We
continue to assemble the instrumend and hope.
h 9.00: the Sun is
still covered by the clouds that have a strange behaviour: the
arrive from North, pass on the Sun and then disapper
completely. A couple of kilometers at South the sky is clear
and the landscape is illuminated by the Sun. This is a crucial
moment: we consult to decide to stay or go away, to search a
better place with the Sun. After a difficult discussion, we
decide to stay here, because the trend is an opening.
h 9.30: finally we
see the Sun and start to take the first photos, with the Sun
out of the eclipse.
h 9.42: first
contact, but unfortunately a cloud cover the Sun and we miss
the moment.
h 9.54: the clouds
finally go away amd we can experimentally verify that the
eclipse is really started!
h 10.00: the last
clouds pass over the Sun. From this moment, no other clouds
will bother us! Wow!
h 10.30:
Alessandro show us his map of Spain, all the amatour
astronomers in the field come to see. Why? Maybe we are in a
wrong place? NO!!! The map is full of holes and project on the
wall behind the map a lot of small Sun images. All the holes
make the phrase "Spain 3-10-05". We shot tens of images, so we
will surely remember where and when we was...
h11.00: second
contact, this is the topical moment: all the photo cameras
shot a lot of images and it's wonderful to observe the lunar
mountains that gradually cover the Sun and show us many Baily
beads. Finally we are happy because the clouds don't
interfered in the success of the expedition! Well done!
h 11.02: we are at
the maximum eclipse, the show is superb, with a perfect ring
drawn in the sky. Marco read the temperature, 13.6°C, less
than half a degree Celsius under the temperature out of the
eclipse, 14.0°C. A very small decrease that we'll try to
explain later. Alessandro raise the hand to the sky, but not
for thanks for the show! He noticed that the shadow of his
hands is very strange, and the annular Sun project double
images of the hands!
h 11.04: third
contact, the time run in the wink of an eye, but the show has
still to come. The exit of the Moon is even more interesting
because a hige Lunar valley leave a small part of Sun between
the black sky. The Baily beads produced
by the Lunar mountains are visible for another minute,
expecially with a binocular.
h11.30: the
eclipse go on but the time seems to be stopped. The principal
phase gone awau and we relax chatting with the other amatours
on the hill, they come from all Europe: France, Belgium,
Germany, Austria...
h 12.30: fourth
contact, the eclipse is finished! We discuss of the eclipse
and all are extremely happy for the morting, even more
considering the thich clouds when the Sun rose! Some of us
have observer a total solar eclipse and we agree that the
"taste" of an anular is something deeply different from a
total, something for "connoisseurs", surely less exciting but
that cannot lack in a curriculum of an amatour astronomer.
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