Hello! Along with Dennis Mammana, I was aboard the Paul Gauguin during the eclipse. It was sure up and down when the clouds would come and go from first contact to second contact! I caught the eclipse in the clouds just after second contact. Boy, were we all relieved to see those clouds leave! Much thanks to the astronomers and the captain of the ship! Barry Kierstein Milford, New Hampshire

Success on the m/s Paul Gauguin. But it was a very close thing! A thick cloud went away just seconds before second contact.

Taken after the sun appeared from under a cloud just for second contact, using a Kodak Pro14n with a Nikon 80-400 VR at 300mm and low f-stop.

just in time before sunset! vivicam 3330 + paper sheet

I was lucky to be able to get a shot of the Eclipse since it was being eclipsed by the clouds. Picture was taken with a Nikon CP995 and 7x35 binoculars covered with a pair of Solar Sunglases.

A Glancing Blow - A partial eclipse takes a series of bytes out of the Sun over North Texas in this animated series of eclipse photographs. Clouds foiled the capture of the first 29 minutes of the eclipse, but grudgingly abated for the remaining 58 minutes. Individual pictures are spaced at approximate 5 minute increments, with some variations in timing due to clouds. Photo details: Sky Watcher 80mm refractor, Orion glass solar filter, V-Block filter, Meade Lunar Planetary Imager with .001sec exposures, piggy-backed on a Meade LX90 8' telescope for tracking.

I was ill-prepared to photograph yesterday's eclipse, but being in south Florida, I had one of the best views in the United States. We ended up making a pinhole projector to photograph the eclipse. It's supposed to spell out "8-Apr-05", but we were in a hurry to witness the eclipse's peak.

The images are frames grabbed from an un-filtered video of annularity. The weather was mostly clear for the first part of the event followed by haze and patchy cloud leading up to annularity and then mostly cloud from soon after that to the end.

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These pictures were taken with a MEADE lx90 200mm telescope projection and a 35mm Kodak KE-30 camera with Agfa 400 color film. We will put more pictures in our page soon.