The last millenium eclipse of the sun: big photographs and my personal experience! |
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Moonlake (Mondsee) near Salzburg, in Austria. It was a very good place to see the eclipse, on 11 August 1999. |
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I was very lucky because for only 2 hours the sky over the lake was not much cloudy, and in the 2 minutes and 10 seconds of total eclipse there was no clouds at all!. Just few miles around from the lake it was cloudy and raining all the time. (Note: Click on any picture to get a full screen view). |
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The beginning of the eclipse. The pictures was taken with a strong filter in order to not damage the camera. |
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Now we are nearly at 100% of sun coverage. Even in such condition there is still very much light. |
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| I made these two pictures without any filter because I was also able to look the sun without any filter. In fact there is not much difference between an 5%, 80% or 99% coverage of the Sun. You still get the Sun rays. It is just like a sun covered with some dark clouds. | ||
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Total Solar Eclipse! |
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I did not expected and imagine such a particular event! It was the most beautiful natural event I ever saw in my life. Even at 99.9% of sun coverage, you just notice that temperature is dropping a little and it is somewhat darker, but at 100% you are transported into a magical world. It took 1400 miles of car driving in order to see the eclipse, but I am ready to make 14.000 miles to see this event again in my life. |
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The light is back, the sun is born again
like a baby that comes into world! |
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| You can watch everyday the sun raising in the morning but only under a total eclipse, that what normally will take 1 hour happen in only 1 second! | ||
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A simple animation of the eclipse! I suggest you to download the very little Flash Player to see the picture.
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As you can see Moonlake (Salzburg) lies in the path of totality. At right you can see a picture of myself! |  |
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