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Total Solar Eclipse | 29 March 2006

Libyan Sahara
North Africa
Televue 76 Apochromatic Refractor at f/8.8
Nikon D70 Takahashi Teegul Equatorial Mount Exposures vary (1/2000 to 2 secs)

Sunrise Eclipse Day - Tobruk Harbour

Our viewing site

Duty Free in the Sahara?

The "Loo Queue"

Set-up and ready

Totality 1/2000 sec

Totality 1/60 sec

Wide-angle mid eclipse

Third Contact - Bailey's Beads

Third Contact - Diamond Ring

Composite - 15 images ranging 1/2000 to 2 secs

Mosaic of partial frames over Sabratha theatre

Sunset Eclipse Day - Downtown Tobruk