Solar Eclipse Gallery
March 29, 2006

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Summary: On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, the moon passed in front of the sun producing a solar eclipse visible from parts of four continents: animated eclipse map.

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  Photographer, Location, Date Larger images Comments

Nick King,
Antalya, Southern Turkey
Mar. 29
#1

This is no ordinary "spectacular-corona-during-a-total eclipse" photo. Look carefully at the Moon. There, in faint outline, are the dark seas and bright highlands we usually see when the Moon is full. How is that possible? Simple: Earthshine. During an eclipse, the supposedly dark New Moon is illuminated by sunlight reflected from Earth. King captured the corona and Earthshine in the same image by carefully combining 10 different exposures: Canon 300D and Canon 100-400mm L lens, 2x Extender

Pete Lawrence,
Southern Turkey
Mar. 29
#1, more

As in Nick King's image, above, this picture from Pete Lawrence shows the faint outlines of the Moon's seas and highlands. "At the time of a solar eclipse, the Sun is blocked out and the faint Earth-lit Moon can be coaxed out of the silhouette with a bit of processing," says Lawrence.

Details: Skywatcher 80ED Pro refractor with a Meade 0.63 focal reducer and a Canon 10D DSLR. Two images combined - 1/20s and 1/3s both working at ISO800.

Odd Høydalsvik,
Manavgat, Turkey
Mar. 29
#1, #2, #3, #4, more

The total solar eclipse 2006. A fantastic experience! Photo details: Canon EOS20D with 600mm lens. 400 ISO.

Nigel Lea-Wilson,
Great Sankey High School, Warrington, UK
Mar. 29
#1, more

The morning was heavily overcast with clouds, but a couple of fleeting glimpses of the eclipse yielded some direct hand-held snaps. Photo details: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5, 1/2000 sec - f/8.

Cuneyt Acar,
Side, Antalya, Turkey
Mar. 29
#1, #2, #3

We were very excited during the solar eclipse in our country. And the silueth of our telescope provided me an interesting image. These images were taken by Canon Powershot A70.

Furio Pieri,
Visco-Palmanova NE Italy
Mar. 29
#1, #2

You don't need to have only an expensive telescope to take a picture of sun in eclipse...a simple glass for welding a digital camera 80 asa 1/750s Kodak camera....... Projection of solar disc with a 70/700 refractor, 15x magnification .

Martin J, Levy,
Milan, Italy (On train #124 to Geneva)
Mar. 29
#1

Our family is traveling around the world for seven months. During the eclipse we were traveling by train from Milan, Italy to Geneva, Switzerland. This picture was taken just after the train left Milan. We used a simple pin-hole camera made out of two pieces of cardboard to watch the eclipse safely. The train was traveling northward, so we had to wait for curves in the track before sunlight entered the train. Read more about this at Michael's blog site http://www.travelingmichael.com/ .

Ed Astle,
Side, Turkey
Mar. 29
#1

WO 80mm refractor (F6.9), 2x converter. Canon 10D at prime focus. 1/60th @ ISO 800.

Joerg Schoppmeyer,
Side Sorgun, Turkey
Mar. 29
#1, #2

Nikon D50 with 800mm Telephoto lens ISO 200 1/200s Time of the first picture : 13h54m59s Time of the second picture : 13h55m07s

George Tarsoudis,
Alexandroupolis, Greece
Mar. 29
#1, #2, #3

I take the photos of partial eclipse with my telescope LXD-75 SC 8' and focal reducer f6.3, Canon EoS 350 D at ISO 100 speed 1/1600.


Abdolreza-Lavari,
Bushehr, Iran
Mar. 29
#1, #2

rain-wind-shadow-cloud-......-eclipse camera:mobilephone,nokia 7610

more images: from Shy Halatzi in Side, Southern Turkey; from Robert Bostwick of Camp Virginia, Kuwait; from Paolo Laquale of Italy; from Dave Shields of Cardiff, Wales, UK; from John Candy at Whitley Bay near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; from Dimitrios Kolovos of Athens, Greece; from Robert Lowton in Kizilot, Turkey;