Extremely high resolution image of solar corona This image is a clearly understandable answer to the question if it makes sense to organize total solar eclipse expeditions in the age of cosmic research of the Sun. It is a composition of 60 images taken with Canon EOS 5D with 1640 mm lens. The position of the Moon represent the situation 15 second after the second contact i. e. 10:35:54 UT.

Click on the image or on the following reference to display the higher resolution image version (1.8 MB, PNG format). Image Tse2006l_1640_15.png Date 29. 03. 2006 Time 2nd contact 10:35:39 UT, 3rd contact 10:39:38 UT

Total eclipse duration 3 m 59.5 s Place Libya Coordinate 30° 56.946' N, 24° 14.301' E, 158 m altitude Conditions Excellent - clear sky, altitude of the Sun above the horizon 62° Optics 16.4/1640mm (Takahashi 100 mm ED, focal length 820 mm with Canon 2× teleconverter) Camera Canon EOS 5D digital camera (ISO 100) Exposure 1/1000 s - 4 s Processing Composition of 60 images. Eclipse images were aligned by means of phase correlation, composed by means of LDIC 4.0 software, processed using Corona 4.0 in order to visualize coronal structures. Final processing was done using ACC 6.0 software.

Image processing by Miloslav Druckmüller Software PhaseCorr 4.0, Corona_ret 2.0, LDIC 4.0, Corona 4.0, Sofo ACC 6.0 Orientation Image must be rotated 24.258° anti-clockwise to achieve standard orientation i. e. North up. Copyright © 2006 Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol Eclipse Photography Home Page

Author's Home Page Miloslav Druckmüller

Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

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