Timing: 16-February-1999 17:00 (UTC+10.5)
February 1999 provided an opportunity for an annular eclipse to be seen in western parts of Australia (details here). Living in the South Australian town of Whyalla, we were off the main eclipse path but I had the chance to observe and photograph the eclipse as partial.
This was the first time I had attempted eclipse photography and it involved really OLD things like film in a camera. Still this was great fun and provided my first taste of the incredible phenomenon that is the eclipse.
Above: Animated GIF sequence of the eclipse (F5 to restart).
Above: Collage of the eclipse from start to finish.
Equipment
The eclipse was captured with the telescope/camera combination shown below. The telescope is a home-built 8 inch f/6.3 Newtonian (Michael O'Brien, circa 1975) fitted with a full aperture solar filter from Thousand Oaks. The camera is a Ricoh KR-10M SLR, configured for eyepiece projection with a 40mm lens. Photos were captured on Kodak Gold 400ASA film with exposures ranging from 1/125th to 1/60th.
Above: Newtonian set up for solar astrophotography
Images were produced by scanning negatives, with processing and GIF production occurring in PhotoImpact.
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