Two nighs before the eclipse, in El Alamein hotel, we tested many and many times the totality moments, to learn by hearth every detail and action.


The arrival at the tent camp in Sallum and the packed meal.


Unfortunately our "tents" was not rainproof and the night before our arrival there was a strong shower, so strong that was years that such a shower was not experienced. The desert was a quagmire and the tents were really humid.


The interior of the tent camp was crowded of tripods.


The morning of March 29 was really similar to Milan in a day of fog...


A martian landscape...


We've placed the instruments near the yellow rope, that marks the border of Egypt and Libya, or better the border of Egypt and the land of nobody.


The ground was a quagmire, not a dry and hot place as expected!


GPS position of the exact point of the telescope.


The friends of GAT astronomical group was at 500m on the North from us.


Our main instruments, the Kenko NES mount, the Pentax75 apochromatic refractor with Canon 350D, a 200mm+Canon 300D, and a digital camcorder with a 60x optical zoom. As a counterweingth the usual bottle of water!


The light that filters in the hands.


A lot of small eclipsed Suns pass trough a geographic map.


The Vixem 12x80 binocular.


The 25x100 binocular.


The digital luxmeter for the illuminance measurements.


The team with the telescope.


The town of Sallum seen from the plateau.