TOTALITY

The images of the Total Solar Eclipse of 29 March 2006,
by Lorenzo Comolli and Alessandro Gambaro

This images show the central phase of the Total Eclipse. During the second and third contact the light of the Sun filters trough the lunar mountains, generating the Baily beads. And more during the contacts, the prominences and the cromosphere is visible, with a red colour. During the totality the corona, the atmosphere of the Sun, is visible, tracing the lines of the magnetic field.

Canon EOS 350D Hutech digital camera, set at 100 ISO, Pentax 75 apochromatic refractor, 75mm f/6.7 used at direct focus, exposure times from 1/4000s to 4s, without filters.
The hour is in UNIVERSAL TIME (Egyptian hour minus 2 hours) and the exposure times are in fractions of seconds.

First contact: 9.20 TU
Second contact: 10.38 TU
Maximum: 10.40 TU (totality duration 3m55s)
Third contact: 10.42 TU
Fourth contact: 12.00 TU

10:38:02, 1/500

10:38:05, 1/2000

10:38:10, 1/2000

10:38:32, 1/250

10:38:33, 1/125

10:38:38, 1/60

10:38:37, 1/30

10:38:38, 1/15

10:38:43, 1/8

10:38:42, 1/4

10:41:54, 1/2000

10:42:02, 1/2000

10:42:04, 1/1000

10:42:07, 1/500





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