It was not the aim of our expedition to systematically photograph the partial
eclipse. Instead, we kept watching the sky before the total eclipse for
clouds, being ready to quickly move to another position should the weather
conditions make it necessary. As a result we were only marginally concerned with
the partial eclipse and the few pictures we took were for illustration only.
However, even those few pictures were sufficient to reconstruct precisely the
complete eclipse as the several missing partial eclipse images can be generated
exactly by the computer. This is how this
animation
of the complete eclipse came to being. The totality phase was created using
pictures taken with both the MTO 1000a 10.5/1084mm and Sonnar 2.8/200 lenses.
