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The Eclipse in Finland 22 July 1990.


 This total eclipse crossed remote and inaccessible regions from Finland, Siberia, Aleutian Islands and into the Pacific. ( Ideal challenge for a Norwegian.)

The darkness of this total eclipse was of course observed by lots of Norwegian because it was so close to home.
Peoples from different part of the world had gather on a hill in the eastern part of Finland not far from Illumantsi close to the Russian boarder and so was I and my friends.
The totality started in the early morning with lots of clouds and lasted approx. one and a half minute.(We did not see it.)

This was the closest we came to totality.
The clouds allowed me to take this direct picture of the sun.
Telescope/Camera : 0.10m f/10 Meade Schmith Cassegrain.
Exposure time and film :
1/1000 sec. on Fujichrome 100.



The totality taken from airplane above the clouds
was shown on TV later.
The quality deteriorates through an aircraft window.





The Eclipse in Indonesia 11.June 1983.


 This eclipse started in the Indian Ocean ( 37 degrees south, 60 degrees east ) and moved over
Java , Celebes, North Guiana and ended at a point north of New Caledonia in the Pacific.

Our traveling group observed it from Thuban on the northern Java where the totality lasted over 5 minutes.
I used a 200mm objective and Kodachrome 64 and exposure times from 1 sec. to 1/500 second.

We traveled by plane from Copenhagen and visited Bangkok, Singapore, Jakarta and arrived at last
Yogyakarta.

Airport at Yogyakarta.



The Japanese has arrived too.



My kind sponsor for airplane tickets, James Steffensen.



I enjoy this new landscape.



We have arrived at Thuban on the north side
of Java.



I waited for the totality then I
started to take some pictures.
The main thing is not to take a
lots of pictures but to observe
the phenomena.
I used my 7x50mm binocular most of
the time.



The outer corona and Mars to the right.









Just before the end of totality.
The diamond ring.



It is almost over.



The totality ends.



Two very satisfied Norwegian.



The eclipse is over.



The media covered the event too.
After our visit in Yogyakarta,
we traveled to Bali and stayed
there for many days.
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