On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Henri Toivonen wrote: > >I managed to see it too, after all. Took one roll of b/w and one roll of > >color neg film with a 400mm lens. > > Damn, we had a really cloudy day up here in Haparanda. Was it nice?
It was raining heavily in Stockholm so at 6:30 it was time to think of a new plan. According to the weather charts on TV it should be clear skies some 200 km away in both Southwest, West and Northwest, and with the rain clouds slowly drifting East so that it may be clear in Stockholm at 14:00 right after the event should be over. Me and my astronomer friend Rasmus decided to take the E18 westbound and drive until we met the sun so to speak, and by the time we came to V�ster�s we found it. Then two hours had passed of the six hour event. So we set up the camera at the Johannisberg airfield and stayed there for about an hour. It looked more or less like expected. A little black spot on the surface of the sun. Clearly visible without magnification, but with a filter to look through. Without aid of any kind it looked just like the sun on an ordinary day. By the time we came back to Stockholm it was clear there too. Those who stayed could see the last 20 minutes or so of the whole thing. anders ------------------------- http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!
