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Click the thumbnails for full size images | | Caution - You should never look at the sun through any optical instrument unless it is correctly filtered or is specifically designed to do so. See our beginners page for full details on solar safety. | June 21st 2001 Eclipse | | All our pictures were taken from the Eureka Camping Park, Kafue Road, Lusaka, Zambia. The site was very well designed and maintained. Eureka is well placed for the city, costing about £0.60 return on the bus or £12 return by taxi, at the time of our visit. Apart from a few days either side of the eclipse the site was also very quiet and peaceful. The lack of artificial lighting at night combined with the clear skies of Africa gave us views of the equatorial night sky that would be hard to beat anywhere. All our eclipse images were taken using a 250mm telephoto lens set to f8, in combination with a 2x tele-converter. The weather for the eclipse was as near perfect as it's possible to get for such an event. The final image has suffered from movement of the camera during the relatively longer exposure time used. A perfect lesson in how important a rigid camera mount is for astronomical photography! |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | August 11th 1999 Eclipse | | All our pictures were taken from le Moulin de la Chut campsite, Juniville, France. The campsite was excellent value for money and we were charged the normal price even during eclipse week. The site also had excellent dark skies at night, once the pool lights went off at about 11 o'clock. All our eclipse images were taken using a 250mm telephoto lens set to f8, in combination with a 3x tele-converter.
The first three images were taken through a home made (BAADER AstroSolar Safety film) solar filter. The next three images were all taken with the filter removed.
The camera was piggybacked on a motor driven three inch refractor and guided by watching the projected image on a screen, this proved to be a great method for guiding a camera during an eclipse. It must be said that the screen did attract quite a crowd, with people taking photographs and videos of the projected image, but far from being a distraction this just added to the whole eclipse experience.
The final two photographs of this set were taken by Keith Speller, who was in Neufchateau, France. Our thanks to Keith for allowing us to use his pictures on our site. | 
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|  |  |  |  |  | | | We also have a recording of the Light curve for the partial eclipse as viewed from Dartford in Kent, where over 95% of the Suns disk was covered by the Moon. | Hale Bopp | | During March and April 1997, in common with many others, all our efforts were concentrated on capturing the brief visit of comet Hale Bopp on film. Judging by some of the images I have seen since, many had both more luck and more talent than us! On the two occasions we did manage to escape to a really good dark sight we spent our evenings sheltering from the rain in the nearest pub. In the end we had to be content with taking our pictures from what passes as a dark site in our part of England. All these images were taken by manually guiding the camera throughout the exposure using a 60mm home made refractor as the guide scope. For the first three images we used a standard 50mm camera lens. The fourth picture was taken as an experiment, using a 125mm projector lens. |  |  |  |  | | | Miscellaneous images | | The first image was taken in order to finish off a film by simply holding the camera, with its lens removed, at the prime focus of a 3inch refractor. The next two experimental pictures were taken by attaching a small video camera to the telescope and photographing the image displayed on a small monitor. Considering this was done from behind double glazing the results were quite good. The images of Mars and Orion were both taken using a manually guided camera fitted with a standard 50mm lens. These pictures demonstrate how easy it is, with modern image processing software, to filter out the effects of light pollution when the required images are point sources. Added 19 May 2005, taken just before 22:00UT the Moon and Jupiter in close proximity. |  |  |  |  |  |  | | | | | | | Submitted images
Images submitted by visitors to this site.... |  | Image submitted by: Duncan Church |  | Image submitted by: Duncan Church |  | Image submitted by: Geoffrey
Moyers | | If you have an image that you would like us to include in our contributors section then you can send it to us at admin@seeviewo.org
Please remember to include your name and a location e.g. Chris Uden, Cambridgeshire, England. Then your images can be correctly credited to you. |
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