Sharing Picture
Well this time I only want to share several pictures with all of you. These are pictures taken with semi-pro Fuji S602Z by Ferry M.S member of Langitselatan team during Annular Solar Eclipse, 26 January 2009 in Bandar Lampung, Lampung - Indonesia.
The Ring of fire. Copyright : Ferry M.S / langitselatan
And this one taken by Jefferson Teng, member of langitselatan team and an amateur astronomer from Lampung, Indonesia.
The ring of fire. Copyright : Jefferson Teng.
During the annular solar eclipse expedition, we weren’t only observing the eclipse but also had a gathering session with langitselatan forum member in Lampung.
langitselatan team and Physics Students Association from Lampung University after star party session. Credit : ivie
langitselatan annular solar eclipse expedition team. credit : Jefferson Teng
February 9th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Teng’s pictures demonstrate that you have had almost perfect skies during the ring phase - but the closed ring is actually less interesting than the dramatic and dynamic “Baily’s Bead” phenomena taking place around 2nd and 3rd contact when also the chromosphere can be imaged inbetween the “light pearls” (see e.g. these pictures from 2005).
Did Teng or someone else at your site attempt to take images like these? I would call them ‘the Grand Prize’ of every annular eclipse, and Bandar Lampung may have been one of the few places on the whole planet where weather conditions seemed to have been good enough for bead+chromosphere imaging (though I’ve also seen pretty clear ring images from Kalimantan).
February 9th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Wow.. the 2005 picture was funtastic.
Well I’m not sure if someone managed to image the Baily’s Bead phenomena. But I will check all the image we took in Lampung. And here are phases of annular eclipse that Teng’s capture with his camera. http://langitselatan.com/2009/01/28/mengejar-matahari-di-lampung/
February 10th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Hi Mr. Fischer,
I looked at my data, and here’re the results i got out of my 2nd contact sequences. My 3rd contact sequences were ruined due to problem on the field.
(the image composite was posted on yousendit.com site, 333kb jpeg format, data has been stretched to brighten the image)
http://www.yousendit.com/download/U0d6RE90NmNkMnRMWEE9PQ
I think I didnt capture Baily’s beads.
Maybe I should’ve experimented to overexpose the picture a little bit more to record the beads during critical moment.
High altitude clouds/haze was present all the time and low altitude clouds came n go. One time, we were lucky to view (and photograph) the eclipse w/o using any filters due to thick clouds. We also had some moments when the sun totally disappeared behind the clouds.
I’m not sure if those two were the limiting factors to record Baily’s Bead. Please let me know so I could make a better preparation for the next eclipse in Shanghai.
thanks.
By the way, those 2005 pictures are awesome! thanks for sharing them with us.