Annular Eclipse on 31st May 2003

The Iceland Experience - other photographs

These pictures were taken on a hillside above the entrance to a road tunnel to
Ólafsfjörður at the mouth of the Eyjafjörður. View map
GPS reference: N66°04.857  W18°32.763

first contact

(at "3 o'clock" on the image)

one minute later

sun at 0.6° - little cloud

nearly half an hour later

now moving into cloud bank

2 minutes to go

prospects not good

15s after second contact

sun at 3.7°

sunlight burning through clouds

 

 

 

mid-point

sun at 3.7° altitude

third contact

sun at 3.8°

view across Eyja fjord

just after first contact

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view across Eyja fjord

during annularity

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enjoying annularity

 

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last updated 10Jun03