Klaus' Photo Gallery - Solar eclipse 1999
We watched the total solar eclipse on August 11, 1999 in Pinkafeld, Burgenland, together with friends. You will find a very similar photo gallery at Andrea's pages.
Preparations
We had travelled to Pinkafeld, a town in southern Burgenland in the very east of Austria the day before, staying at the Internat HTLB Pinkafeld. In the morning we had heavy rain so after breakfast we spent some time planning our route to the sun.
- Watching the weather forecast on the web
- Cheeeeese!
- Bernhard and Maria
- Maria and Andrea
- The Solar Eclipse Gang
On the field
The weather forecast was not very encouraging for other areas within reach so we finally settled on a little hill near Pinkafeld, together with other "eclipsists".
- Calling friends
- Maria taking pictures again
- First glance
- Has it started already?
- Ups and downs
- Klaus and Andrea
- Look at the sun!
- The Solar Eclipse Gang again
- Other spectators
- Gurbir discussing astronomy
- Andrea
- Blue sky?
Eclipse
A few more pictures of the total eclipse will be posted here shortly.
- Partial eclipse 1
- Partial eclipse 2
- Partial eclipse 3
- Partial eclipse 4
- Partial eclipse 5
- Totality 1
- Totality 2
- Totality 3
Welcome back, Brother Sun
Pinkafeld Downtown
After the event we spent some time in Pinkafeld before returning to Vienna.
Links
If you want to know more about solar eclipses, check out the links below:
- Solar Eclipse Photography by Fred Espenak
- Tips for the solar eclipse 1999
- Books about solar eclipses (in English)
- Books about solar eclipses (in German)