Astro-Design

The Total Solar Eclipse of August 11 , 1999
an eyewitness report and picture story
from Bulgaria

by Harald Ringsevjen


Unitron 80 mm f.6,25 with Super Polaris equatorial mount and drive.	A smaller scope was also used to project the sun at a white card for safe observation of the partial eclipse.
The partial phase. One of the suspots is also visible. Click at the picture to get a larger view.	Only a few minutes before the totality. Click at the picture to get a larger picture.
The totality with the prominences. Click at the picture to get a larger view.	An enlarged view of the prominences. Click at the picture to get a larger view.
The inner corona and the prominences. Click at the picture to get a larger view.	The inner corona and some of the outer corona. Click at the picture to get a larger view.
The outer corona. Click at the piture to get a larger view.	All the photos were taken with Pentax MZ-50 and a 2X teleconverter mounted to the Unitron 500mm telescope to get a 1000mm telephoto-lens f. 12.5 with exposure-times between 1/125 s. (the prominences) and 4s. (the outer corona). A Fuji Velvia 50 ISO film was used. A solar-filter was used during the partial eclipse.