Volume 6, Issue 7 Special SOLAR ECLIPSE NEWSLETTER Page 41 From: Olivier "Klipsi" Staiger <
[email protected]> At what point does a diamond shrink to a bead and a bead To: <
[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, grow to a diamond? I chose to measure from an optical July 01, 2001 10:07 PM Subject: [SE] partial eclipse as artifact, the lens flare. When it was present there was a dia- seen from Ascension Island mond. This was very apparent visually too. In my cor- rected vision great spikey diamonds were evident for an see www.the-islander.org.ac/1542.htm for images of the appreciable period around 2d and 3rd contacts. Stunning! deep partial eclipse seen on Ascension Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The original video goes on for much longer than the clip, which just shows the middle portion. I removed the solar filter 2 minutes before predicted totality and didn't replace From: Assoc Prof J R Huddle <
[email protected]> To: Solar it for some minutes afterward. This was the first time I'd Eclipse Mailing List <
[email protected]> used a video at an eclipse and what impressed me most was Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: [SE] Pre- how much I could see before totality. After adjusting for liminary report from Chewore exposure the large prominence on the eastern limb was im- mediately obvious. Incidentally, this tactic had no ill effects I just returned from two weeks in Zimbabwe and Botswana, on the camcorder. and before I read any other reports, I just want to say that of the six total solar eclipses I have seen so far, the 21 June From our position on the southern edge of the path the solar 2001 Solstice Eclipse in Zimbabwe was the prettiest.