THE LANDSCAPE

The first images of the eclipse of August 11, 1999!
Images taken by Lorenzo Comolli

The location whas choosen for it's elevation over the near fields for seeing the lunar umbra. It's at about 20 km from Balatonfured, on Lake Balaton.
 
The fields East of the location choosen for the observations. The little city visible is Pula.
The North landscape with one of more high hills of Hungary: 600m of elevation!
The woods and fields at South-Est.

 
Two of the member of the expedition: Alberto Brunati at right of his 127mm Apochromatich refractor, and at left Masimo Brunati.

 
 
My instrument (80mm f/5 refractor with a 2x focal multiplier), on the background Alessandro Gambaro and his  20cm Schmidt-Cassegrain with a 400mm f/5.6 teleobjective plus duplicator, mounted in piggyback.

 
The enclosure I built around my instruments...

 
 
On the background another people of the expedition: Alessantro with his MTO 1000 mounted on a Vixen Great Polaris.

 

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