Total Solar Eclipse 1999 August 11
- Find here some pictures taken during our observation efforts near Karlsruhe.
Total Lunar Eclipse 2001 Jan 09
- Observed from Munich using a Meade LX200 8" SC, no pictures though.
Total Lunar Eclipse 2003 May 16
- Observed from Valparaiso, Chile. Just one shaky picture for reference ;-)
- NASA's Eclipse Homepage
Annular Solar Eclipse 2003 May 31
- Observed as an 85% partial eclipse at sunrise from Munich using a Meade LX200 8" SC with focal reducer.
- More information on Fred Espenak's
site
Local circumstances 1st Contact 04:29:06 Mid Eclipse 05:23:27 4th Contact 06:20:50
Total Lunar Eclipse 2003 November 09
- Observed from Munich. Find some pictures here.
- Featured on Astrowetter.com
Total Lunar Eclipse 2004 May 04
- Observed from the MAGIC telescope site at La Palma, Canary Islands, 2200 m a.s.l.
- Was in progress at moonrise from that location
Annular Solar Eclipse 2005 October 03
- For some impressions of the annular
eclipse 2005 as observed from Madrid, Spain, see here.
Local circumstances 1st Contact 09:40:06 2nd Contact 10:55:38 Mid Eclipse 10:57:43 3rd Contact 10:59:49 4th Contact 12:23:12 Annularity: 4:11.6min
Total Solar Eclipse 2006 March 29
- We stayed in Side, Turkey, from March 26th to 31st, 2006 and were able to observe the eclipse right from the beach. Details and pictures.
- My pictures featured on Astrowetter.com (Partial phases and totality gallery) and Eclipse-Reisen.de
- Also observed the preceeding penumbral lunar eclipse on March 14th, 2006 (from Munich).
Local circumstances 1st Contact 12:38:19 2nd Contact 13:54:56 Mid Eclipse 13:56:49 3rd Contact 13:58:41 4th Contact 15:13:31 Totality: 3:45.2 min
Partial Lunar Eclipse 2006 September 07
- Visible from Europe at moonrise
- Observed from Munich, but clouded out soon after maximum eclipse
- See also on NASA's Eclipse Home Page
Total Lunar Eclipse 2007 March 03
- Was fully visible from Europe
- Observed from Munich, largely clouded out with few clear sky opportunities around totality
- Equipment: EOS 30D and Scopos Observer 62 f/8.4
- See also on NASA's Eclipse Home Page
Total Solar Eclipse 2008 August 01
- Took place over Northern Canada, Northern Greenland, Siberia, China.
- Totality for approx. 2:10 minutes
- Some details
- NASA' Eclipse bulletin
- See also on NASA's Eclipse Home Page
- Observed from Munich using a Meade LX200 8" SC with focal reducer.
Total Solar Eclipse 2009 July 22
- Visible as total eclipse from India, Nepal, China
- Totality for approx. 6 minutes
- We observed the eclipse from Jinshan, China, where 5 minutes 53 minutes of totality were expected.
- Stayed in China from 2009 July 11 to 25
- Equipment: Scopos TL 805 refractor
- See also on NASA's Eclipse Home
Page
Local circumstances 1st Contact 08:23:01 2nd Contact 09:36:05 Mid Eclipse 09:39:02 3rd Contact 09:41:58 4th Contact 11:01:42 Totality: 5:53 min
Annular Solar Eclipse 2010 January 15
- Longest duration of any ASE until 3043, 11 min 8 s
- Observable conveniently from various resort hotels in the Maldive Islands
- See also on NASA's Eclipse Home Page
Total Solar Eclipse 2015 March 20
- Visible as total eclipse from Svalvard, Färöer
- Totality for approx. 2:00 minutes (maximum totality 2:40 minutes)
- We travelled to Torshavn, Faroe Islands
- Equipment: Scopos TL 805 refractor
Local circumstances 1st Contact 08:38:49 2nd Contact 09:40:51 Mid Eclipse 09:41:51 3rd Contact 09:42:51 4th Contact 10:47:38 Totality: 2:00 min
Total Solar Eclipse 2016 March 9
- Successful eclipse chasing at C3-30 min and observation in Belitung, Indonesia.
Equipment: Scopos TL 805 refractor and Canon EOS 7D (f=896mm), Canon EF 100-400L and Canon EOS 6D (f=400mm), orchestrated by Xavier Jubier's Solar Eclipse Maestro 1.8.4v10.Local circumstances 1st Contact 06:21:10 2nd Contact 07:23:23 Mid Eclipse 07:24:22 3rd Contact 07:25:21 4th Contact 08:36:36 Totality: 1:58 min
in the plans: Total Solar Eclipse 2017 August 21
- We observed this total solar eclipse in Glendo, Wyoming, USA from Thomas Memorial Airfield.
(42°31.128'N 105°1.337'W)
Equipment: Scopos TL 805 refractor and Canon EOS 7D (f=896mm), Canon EF 400L and Canon EOS 6D (f=400mm), orchestrated by Xavier Jubier's Solar Eclipse Maestro 1.8.6v2.
Local circumstances 1st Contact 10:24:00 2nd Contact 11:45:02 Mid Eclipse 11:46:17 3rd Contact 11:47:31 4th Contact 13:12:11 Totality: 2:29,3 min
My personal statistics
| Success ratio | Time of totality/ annularity | |
| Total Solar Eclipses | 3 / 6 | 18:13 min |
| Annular Solar Eclipses | 1 / 1 | 4:10 min |
| Partial Solar Eclipses | 2* / 1 | |
| Travelled to Eclipses | 4 / 6 | |
| Total Lunar Eclipses | 6 / 5 |
See also statistics at eclipse-chasers.com
*) There's one eclipse which I think I accidentally saw when I was
very young. It is not listed here. I'll have to torture my memory and investigate more details.
General information on solar eclipses
Useful links
- Eclipse photography timing software for Windows, very useful!
- Java application displaying contact times, very useful!
- Google Earth kmz files for solar eclipses
- Site Survey in Egypt and Turkey
- Solar Eclipses seen by Fred Bruenjes
- The Ultimate Almanac: Rare, unusual and/or spectacular sky events in the 21st century by D. Fischer
R. Wagner, 2006-09-07, 2006-12-23, 2008-08-01, 2009-02-12, 2014-05-07, 2015-07-07, 2017-09-03