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Kaunispaa Hill – observation point

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Top of Kaunispaa Hill, 2km NE of Saariselka, Lapland. This was my observation point of 1st June partial eclipse. At 500m altitude, from here you can see the whole country of Santa Claus.

00:00 Rovaniemi Sun

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

A midnight sunset on Kemi river in Rovaniemi is something to be remembered

Bottom of sea

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Once those rocks were on the bottom of the sea…

Green Lake

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Typical green-brown lake in the heart of Lapland

Lake Inari

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

This is a saturnine view of the mighty Inari lake near 69 parallel, northen Finland.

Red House

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Red house in Inari

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

This is an image near North meridian. Note that the Sun should be under 1 degree over horrizon, but due to refraction it is over 1.5 degrees.

Midnight 50% Sun

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

This is a picture of the eclipsed Sun near maximum phase.

x-ray eclipse

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

For this eclipse I’ve tried 6-7 different type of solar filters. This one is shot through someone’s lung. An x-ray of course 🙂