Mercury in front of Moon

The waxing moon with the Statue of Mercury
 from Schlossplatz, Stuttgart on Oct. 02, 2011

Etoiles & Stars

Les Etoiles de Mougins, Cote d'Azur and Starry Nights in Corsica

6e Festival International de la Gastronomie et des arts de vivre
Mougins du 16 au 18 sept.

Lyra and Cygnus from Calvi, Sep 28, nothing compared to the view
from the mountains at 2000 m altitude

Oct. 01, Monte Rosa, Gornergrat,
Matterhorn

Eiger, AirBerlin AB8869 Airbus319
NCE - STR 01.10. 14:10 - 15:30

Total Lunar Eclipse 2011 June 15

Video at 23h 55m MESZ, 7 minutes before leaving the umbra


The total phase was visible intermittently through haze and clouds starting at 22h 45m with the help of 7x42 binoculars.

Total phase 22h:47:38 and 22h:48:08 with aircraft taking off from STR
click for animated large view

23h:22:35 with helicopter

23h 22m

23h 56m MESZ shortly before leaving the umbra

http://www.sternwarte.de/

Eclipse with airplane

At 09:35 I saw a plane rushing across the solar disk at 20x magnification, then immediatly turned the Lumix DMC FX150 in video mode on. And there was another one only a minute later!




Video on youtube

montage of 4 screenshots

The rising sun already in eclipse was recorded on slide-film through a 500 mm telephoto lens.
Some processed scans  are here

A little more occultation: airplane crossing the partially eclipsed sun at 09:36

Anticrepuscular rays - encore

Anticrepuscular rays were recorded already on a photo taken 9 minutes before second contact of the Total Eclipse on July 11, 2010 from the Eclipse City camp on the Balcon de Calafate.

Hardly recognizable on the standard rendering (jpeg below), HDR techniques were employed on the raw-format image. After developing with different exposure values in Silkypix, the resulting three tif-files were combined to a Pseudo-HDR using FDRTools.

The cloud in the upper left-hand corner is obviously the cause for the diagonal dark band extending towards the anti-solar point. The other dark bands could be caused by (unnoticed) clouds overhead.The mountaintop on the horizon opposite to the sun is Cerro Campo 25 de Mayo, el. 1338m, 12.7 km away.

EXIF data for image P1150024:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150
f=7.8mm, 1/125sec, f/3.1 ISO 100






Excursions to Balcon de El Calafate provided exclusively by Mil Outdoor Adventure, regular price US $ 50 w/o solar eclipse.

HDR-Panorama

See the blog entry of July 20, 2010

Erster Raumfahrttag in Stuttgart

Mission Zukunft: Von Baden-Württemberg ins All
am 8. Oktober 2010 im Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart
Fotogalerie

TSE 2010 from Magallanes Region in Chile

Eclipse Total en Torres del Paine Magallanes Chile
5 youtube videos by EsquivelMario
/*views of the umbra from just outside of the totality zone*/

From Puerto Natales
Eclipse Solar, Julio 11 de 2010 by Patagonia Webcam
Video1 on Vimeo /*partial phase*/
Lamentablemente la nubosidad no permitió disfrutar del evento natural en su totalidad. Aqui el registro de Patagonia Webcam.
Video2 on Vimeo /*colorful sky after the eclipse*/
Eclipse y Atardecer en Puerto Natales

Sigue el Eclipse on Chilean IYA2009 website

In the media: La Nacion July 13, 2010 terra.cl July 11