Total Solar Eclipse from Libya, March 29, 2006. Taken with Canon 20Da DSLR camera, and William Optics 66mm triplet Apo refractor (f/6) at ISO100. Composite of short 1/500-sec diamond ring exposures and longer 0.3 sec mid-totality exposure. Blue sky coloration added in Photoshop.
Total Solar Eclipse, from a site 130 km south of Tobrouk, Libya; March 29, 2006. 0.8 second exposure with Canon 20D camera and 10-22mm lens at 12mm focal length and f/5 aperture. Exposure set auotmatically. Part of a time-lapse sequence with frames firing every 1s. Venus is visible at lower right and Mercury is barely recorded on frame half way between Venus and the Sun.
Total Solar Eclipse from Libya, March 29, 2006. Second contact diamond ring. Taken with Canon 20Da DSLR camera, and William Optics 66mm triplet Apo refractor (f/6) and ISO 100 and 1/2000 second exposure. Blue sky coloration added in Photoshop.
