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Partial Solar Eclipse

The sun rose partially eclipsed by the Moon on Saturday 31st May, 2003 (having already presented an annular eclipse to those north of Scotland).

Selected as the British Astronomical Association's picture of the week for 2nd June, 2003

Date/Location:	Dengie Marshes, Essex 31st May, 2003
Equipment:	80mm refractor & 200mm telephoto lens
Camera/Exposure:	Olympus OM1 35mm camera / E200 slide film exposures not recorded
Processing:	Scanned with Minolta D'Image Scan Duall II @ 2700dpi, post processed with Photoshop 7
Notes:	The cloud / mist on the horizon acted as a natural filter and so no filtering was used at all for these pictures The mosaic (bottom picture) was put together from 4 separate exposures separated by about 7 minutes. The lowest image of the Sun in this mosaic was the first we acctually saw of the Sun as it rose out of the mist, and it was a lot fainter than it appears here.

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