Eclipse photos (large)
 
Click on the links below to visit other parts of Mongolia:
Eclipse, Gobi desert, Hustain Nuruu Reserve, International Intellectual Museum, Kharkhorum, Kherlan River Valley, Ulaanbataar, Ulgi,  Yol valley, Mongolia wildflowers

A map showing where we visited can be found by clicking here. 
Remember to come back to see the rest of our trip after you look around Goggle maps.

These are the pictures as taken by Lee, Michael, Nancy and Alan.
I have done minimum processing (cropping and some exposure adjustments). 
Both Lee and Alan are planning to do some processing to try to make pictures that do justice to what we saw.
Probably not possible but wish us luck.
If you would like these pictures for more than your own personal use please let us know.
We have no objection to noncommercial use but if you make money with them we would like a little of it  :-)

To see this page with smaller versions of the pictures click here.
Michael Wolfson took these pictures of the eclipsed sun and two planets.
He was using a Canon PowerShot S3 IS on auto. 
Exposure was f 3.2 at 1/15 second for the first and 1/13 second for the second at a focal length of 9.7.
I think they are Mercury and Venus (I would welcome corrections or a confirmation.)  
 

Nancy Kuehner also took pictures of the sun and planets during totality. 
Nikon 5400   ISO 200     F 5.6     focal length 24.00    1 second exposure    hand held 
 

Lee Petersen got some great shots
First contact.  Can you see it?


Partial phases
            

TOTALITY
The diamond ring
 

You can see the chromosphere on the left and a prominence on the right
   

The chromosphere is now hidden
Note how the lowest levels of the corona change in successive pictures as the moon moves past the sun.
And the prominence becomes more prominent.      (I couldn't resist.)            

The second diamond ring.


Partial phases again.
This time as the moon moves away from our line of sight to the sun.
                 

Fourth and last contact.



Nick took this video which he shared with the group.
Here is the beginning of the eclipse.
It is great, but no photographic or video representation can do justice to what it is like to be there in person. 
There were several in the group who had never seen an eclipse. 
Their reactions may give you a little better idea of what the eclipse really looked like
He used a Sony HSR-Sr11 set to auto. 
His comment on technique "Easy, point and shoot."


Mongolia eclipse

Here is the final diamond ring.
No one fails to be struck by the beauty of the diamond ring when they actually see it for themselves.


Mongolia eclipse final diamond ring


The following pictures were taken by Alan Kuehner.
They were taken using a Nikon 950 set at 3x zoom with a Kenko 8X  afocal telescope attached.
First contact and a moment later.
The difference in color is due to different exposure times.
 

Partial phases










 

TOTALITY
The diamond ring


The corona in its glory.
 
  

Here I exposed to get the outer reaches of the corona resulting in the inner parts being greatly overexposed.

Various exposures.

Two shots of the diamond ring.
 

The partial phases on the "back side" of totality.










And the sun is whole once more. 


Many thanks to our friends from the trip for sharing their good company, videos, and pictures with us and with you.
Thanks again Alice, Lee, Eleanor, Michael, Joyce, David, Juliana, Tom, Stu, Tanner and Nick.
Other eclipses we have seen:
    South Pacific  April 8,2005
    Greece  March 29, 2006  

Click on the links below to visit other parts of Mongolia:
Eclipse, Gobi desert, Hustain Nuruu Reserve, International Intellectual Museum, Kharkhorum, Kherlan River Valley, Ulaanbataar, Ulgi,  Yol valley, Mongolia wildflowers

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