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Together with some friends I have been lucky to watch the Total Eclipse of the Sun. We travelled around in south-eastern Bavaria, following holes within the cloudy sky. Finally we reached the lake Chiemsee, where we found an optimum place to experience this great event. What a pity, that the phase of totality has been so short and the next eclipse is so far away... Though everybody does this, I'll also present some of the photos we took within my Eclipse Photo Story. The page contains Photos of the Sun and also pictures of the story around. The photos are partly copied from the Eclipse Movie that my friend Wolfgang Schrüfer made, there are some from my friend Fritz Hoffmann, the others are taken by myself. There are two other Eclipse Photo pages on my Homepage: one presenting the personal Sun Eclipse Experiences of Gebhard Oelmaier (incl. photo by Helfried Mallow), the other containing photos by Thomas Baumann. You'll find the corresponding Links at the end of this page. Click on each photo to enlarge |
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| That's me in the early morning before taking the ride to search the best observation place. | We finally arrived at Chiemsee and prepared us and our equipment for the great event. |
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This is Wolfgang, who made the first 7 fine pictures as copies from his Eclipse Movie.
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There it is, the big moment! It became colder and the impressive Corona appeared. See me taking some photos. |
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The beginning: Partial Phase of the Eclipse. |
The big moment: The Corona appears. |
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The 2 minutes of totality passing too fast: Smaller picture of the Corona. |
Corona picture taken from german ZDF TV. The only one not from us. |
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| The next photos are taken by myself. This one shows the very early phase of Partial Eclipse. | Sun Corona during Totality. Impressive, I won't forget these minutes. |
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| I like this nice Corona Picture with reflection. | This is a Corona view with first upcoming clouds. |
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| Another view at the Total Eclipse of the Sun. | Detailed view taken with longer exposure time. |
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When the clouds came during decreasing Partial Phase: Sun hidden behind the clouds. |
A more dramatic view at the cloudy sky with partial Sun Eclipse. |
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These 4 pictures of the Sun have been taken by Fritz. This is a nice Corona Photo. |
View at the Sun with clouds and illumination effect (prominences?). |
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Decreasing Partial Phase. |
Dramatic view of the cloudy sky with Sun. |
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Shortly after the Sun Eclipse, when the Partial Phase still was decreasing: Rain came in at Lake Chiemsee. View at the near mountains. |
After the Eclipse: Only happy faces! My friends Conny, her son Gabriel, Wolfgang and Conny's husband Fritz. |
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After the Eclipse: The happy faces, Photo taken by Wolfgang. |
After the Eclipse: The happy faces of the 4 'men'. |
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Wolfgang tried to take a Photo Sequence of the eclipse. The result is not exactly what he expected ... |
... but it looks very nice and interesting. |
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These are 2 variations of one of my Corona pictures from above.
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I will always remember this Eclipse day, you may tell your impressions to my Guestbook. |
