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03/29/06 Total Eclipse of the Sun from Salloum Egypt. 

   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.

   Check out the technical details used to create a composite image of totality.

   This is a short photo galley of the trip to Egypt.

 

 

The purpose of taking all of these images was to make a time lapse animation of the eclipse.  These images have been assembled into a movie of the eclipse that can be viewed here.

 

  All images shown here were taken with the set-up seen in the picture to the left.  The Nikon 600mm f/4 lens, Nikon D-70s body and the Thousand Oaks Optical Type 3 Plus solar filter were mounted on an Orion SkyView Pro equatorial mount.  The time interval between each image is 30 seconds.  The shutter of the Nikon D-70s was automatically triggered by an external intervalometer made by Harbortronics, the DigSnap 2100.  I don't have software that is smart enough to automatically register all of these frames from one end of the eclipse to the other.  Most registration algorithms use "brightness or edge features" in  a FFT analysis.  This doesn't work for an eclipse since the "brightest portion" and or "edges" are always changing from one frame to the next.  It took me about 12 long and hard hours to register all of these 300+ images by hand in Photoshop.

 

This is a series of images of the partial phase of the eclipse.