Solar Eclipses

Vanishing Umbra over the Gobi Desert (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Vanishing Umbra over the Gobi DesertAfter the end of the total phase of the total solar eclipse for a short time the umbra of the moon can be observed, vanishing to eastern directions. Like a dark ...

China Eclipse (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

China EclipseAbout 22 minutes after totality the grown solar crescent provides during the second partila phase of the totla solar eclipse on 01. August 2008 a spectacle of light and shadow with a ...

Chromosphere 2006 (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Chromosphere 2006With the beginning of a total solar eclipse for a few seconds after disappearance of the last sun beam the reddish shimmering chromosphere becomes visible above the ...

Diamond Ring over the Gobi Desert (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Diamond Ring over the Gobi DesertJust a few seconds after end of the total phase of the solar eclipse first sunlight breaks through behind the moon. The shadow cone of the moon moves over the ...

Double Corona (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Double CoronaDuring a total solar eclipse the new moon completely hides the sun. No beam of the light emitting photosphere reaches the observer directly. So it is dark enough to view the atmosphere ...

Great Prominence 2008 (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Great Prominence 2008During a total solar eclipse giant gas eruptions happening above the solar surface (so called prominences) can be visible above the edge of the dark moon. On 01. August ...

Ring of the Millennium (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Ring of the MillenniumThe longest annular solar eclipse of the third millennium occured on 15. January 2010. Die Maldive island of Ellaidhoo was one of the places with the longest duration of ...

Corona 2001 (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Corona 2001During a total solar eclipse the new moon completely hides the sun. No beam of the light emitting photosphere reaches the observer directly. So it is dark enough to view the ...

Corona 2006 (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Corona 2006During a total solar eclipse the new moon completely hides the sun. No beam of the light emitting photosphere reaches the observer directly. So it is dark enough to view the ...

Corona 2008 (picture size 30x45)

Photograph in handcrafted frame (glass coated single side)

Corona 2008During a total solar eclipse the new moon completely hides the sun. No beam of the light emitting photosphere reaches the observer directly. So it is dark enough to view the ...