November 3, 1994 Altiplano of Lauca National Park, Chile, near Bolivian border altitude = 13,000 feet Parincota Volcanoes to the east. Venus at 2 o'clock from the Sun, near inferior conjunction -- don't spot it out! 28mm lens at f/2.8 about 2 second exposure Ektachrome 100 slide film Mask with dark hole added over Sun to darken disk and eliminate irradiation of disk from overexposure of image and haze -- cheating a little but its just putting back what the film takes away and making it look more like what the eye saw!
May 10, 1994 Annular Eclipse taken from a site east of Douglas Arizona Showing "reverse" Bailey's Beads -- lunar mountains just touching Sun's limb 4-inch f/6 apo refractor at f/15 with Barlow lens Ektachrome 100 slide film.
The February 26, 1979 total solar eclipse shot from southern Manitoba. This is a composite blend of 4 exposures: 1//4, 1/8 sec, 1/15 and 1/250th second. shot with a Questar 3.5-inch f/16 Maksutov-Cassegrain on Kodachrome 64 film. Tracked at sidereal rate. Taken from our site on Highway 1, near Carberry, Manitoba between Brandon and Winnipeg. Stacked in Photoshop and luminosity masks applied to blend the images, from scanned slides that had already been processed.
