TOTAL SOLAR
ECLIPSE
EXPEDITION
Byron Soulsby
in association with
the Calwell Lunar Observatory
Australia
Here is a short QuickTime
video of the eclipse:
For a report concerning this eclipse
click
here.
Here are some frame grabbed images from my Sony CCD-TR511E
analogue video camera. The eclipse was observed from just outside our
camp site at Mvuu, Zambia in Africa on 21 June 2001. All the images
were recorded in Universal Time and a correction to the displayed
times of minus 2 minutes 16 seconds is required due to a drift in the
recorded time on the video camera. This makes the corrected time for
first contact in image one which was a little late, to be 11h 45m 48s
Universal Time and my first image of totality at 13h 11m 31s.
In the image below two Baily Beads can be seen at the
right hand side of the thin solar crescent.
The true time for
the diamond ring
image above (third contact) was 13h 14m 03s.
Produced by
Byron
Soulsby / Theodore Lunar Observatory / 14 August 2001 Updated
26 May 2007.