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| Images of 1999 Solar Eclipse taken from Signal Hill, St. John's Newfoundland. Photographed by Randy Dodge Wednesday August 11, 1999 |
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"First Contact with Sun" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. (Remember that its just after sunrise!). |
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"Partial Phase" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Partial Phase" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Partial Phase" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Partial Phase" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Approaching Maximum" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Maximum" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Just After Maximum" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Partial Phase" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Partial Phase" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Partial Phase" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Approaching Last Contact with Sun" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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"Last Contact with Sun" photographed Saturday August 11, 1999, with a Meade 97E telescope prime focus (1000 mm), Thousand Oaks solar filter, 1/1000 sec on Kodak 400. |
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| Click here for Randy's Eclipse 99 Animation | |
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Information on Observing CAUTION: Never view the sun without proper adequate filtering. This eclipse may be particularly dangerous for viewing if its partially cloudy on the horizon and you may be thinking its safe to view with binoculars -it isn't. Don't forget that if you use a filter, you also have to filter any direct viewfinder. A number 14 welders glass will do as a filter. Solar Screen mylar is the best economical filter, while I use a Thousands Oaks filter for small telescope filtering - gives a pleasing color :). A simple observing method is to take a small mirror, tape or otherwise cover all but a 1/4 inch square area of the mirror surface. Angle the mirror so that it reflects the sun onto a nearby surface. You'll have to adjust for the proper distance by experiment, but you'll see an image of the sun that you can record safely (image size will be about 1 inch for each 10 feet of projection). You can also stick a pencil hole in an index-sized card and project the image onto a second card a few feet away. You'll need at least a 500mm lens for a camera to show a reasonable solar image, I use a 1000mm spotting scope with a solar filter. |
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