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This page contains a few example images collected by our 2 scientific expeditions of the Royal Observatory to the totality band of the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999

The images can be distributed freely under the condition that you mention the 'Royal Observatory of Belgium'. In addition, when using the SOHO images below, mention 'SOHO is an ESA/NASA project of international collaboration'. The images of the amateurs cannot be distributed without their permission, we can only show them on our site.

These are the "raw" images of one of our two teams of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, headed by Jean-René Gabryl, taken at Râmnicu-Vâlcea in Roumania. They show the partial phase and the sequence of the solar corona during totality. This observation site is the first of two reference sites for the TECONET project (Trans-continental Coronal Observing Network), a European wide network for coronal observations during the eclipse.

instrumentation used: CCD video camera with a 200mm telelens, oriented along the axis of the earth (vertical on the images), plus a lineair polarisation filter.

Images of the partial phase

  • photo 1: the partial phase.
  • photo 2: the partial phase.

    Images of the total phase

  • photo 3: the total phase
  • photo 4: the total phase
  • photo 5: the total phase
  • photo 6: the total phase
  • photo 7: the total phase

    The other team headed by Dr. Frederic Clette took observations from Niederbronn-les-Bains (France, Long: -07d39m, Lat: +48d58m, Alt: 250m). This observation site is the other site of the two reference sites for the TECONET project (Trans-continental Coronal Observing Network), a European wide network for coronal observations during the eclipse.

    Eclipse images

  • Image 8: the partial phase of the eclipse

    The Belgian team from the Royal Observatory

  • Image 9: Belgian scientists at work
  • Image 10: Belgian scientists at work
  • Image 11: Belgian scientists at work
  • Image 12: Belgian scientists at work

    The images images were sent to us by amateur-photographers who gave us the permission to put them on our website. We can not give the permission to distribute these photo's.

    Taken at different locations in France and Belgium. Thanks to Brecht de Weirdt, Luc Gunsing, Daniel Baise and Paul Meuldijk.

  • photo 13: photo taken at Amiens by Brecht De Weirdt
  • photo 14: photo taken at Amiens by Brecht De Weirdt
  • photo 15: photo taken by Luc Gunsing
  • photo 16: photo taken at Rethel by Daniel Baise
  • photo 17: photo taken at Rethel by Paul Meuldijk
  • photo 18: photo taken at Rethel by Paul Meuldijk

    • The solar corona observed from space

    Researchers at the Royal Observatory of Belgium are also participating in the space mission SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, an ESA/NASA project of international collaboration). This space observatory is located at the Lagrange point L1, between the earth and the Sun, but outside the orbit of the moon around the earth (see overview). Therefore, SOHO has not seen the eclipse but retained an uninterrupted view on the solar surface.

  • Image 19: The corona seen by the space telescope EIT, also on board of SOHO.
  • Image 20: The corona seen by the coronagraph LASCO, also on board of SOHO.

    other images

    Images from a previous total solar eclipse which occured in the Caribean Sea on February 26, 1998.

    For more information about this images and their use
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