Below is a short
photo galley of the eclipse site on eclipse day. Click here
for pictures of the rest of the trip. Click here
for a gallery of pictures that have been sent to me from others on the trip.
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The gate to the town of Salloum in western Egypt. |
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The observing site is located on top of the plateau (on the left) about 800 feet above the Mediterranean Sea. |
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A view of Salloum from near the top of the plateau. |
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Travelquest provided us with our "entrance pass" to this celestial event. |
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There were over 2000 people at the observing site. It was nice to be able to set up on concrete. |
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Setting up the polar axis to North. The magnetic declination at the site was 3 degrees East. |
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The latitude was 31.5 degrees North. |
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Slipping on the solar filter rotator. |
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Part of our observing group. Left to right Gary Seronik (with his 66mm Willam Optics refractor), Naomi Smith and then me. |
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Jan McRoberts at the controls of the Celestron 20x80 binos. |
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Solar filter glasses were provided by Travelquest. |
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This shows the Nikon 600mm f/4, D-70s, right angle viewfinder and Harbortronics intervalometer on the Orion SkyView Pro mount. |
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A unique pinhole projection of King Tut showing a partially eclipsed sun. |
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Doug and Naomi Smith ready for their first total solar eclipse. |
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Lots of observers behind Jan McRoberts. |
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Views of the sun through Gary's William Optics 66mm beauty were razor sharp with his Bader solar filter. |
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A camera taking a picture of a camera taking a picture. The things we do during the partial phase. |
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Naomi Smith getting a view of the sun with her video camera and filter. |
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Gary setting up for the totality sequence with his back-up camera. |
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This is known as fiddling around with your hardware while shooting the partial phase of the eclipse. |
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Oh, those crisp views of those sunspots. |
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Jan McRoberts getting an eyeful of her first total eclipse through to 20x80's. |
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Totality, looking Northeast. |
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Totality, looking Southwest. Venus can be seen in this picture. |
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Back to the Home page.Click here for many more pictures and additional information about the eclipse.
This will take you to a high resolution animation of the eclipse, ~14 MB.
Go here to see images of the Sun. Images are at 30 second intervals.
Check out the technical details used to create a composite image of totality.
