Archive for the ‘Expeditions’ Category

Fireworks on Sun

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

The prominence of the eclipsed Sun rises on it’s edge at 3rd contact of the eclipse. The image was tacken with an oil spaced triplet assembled in a CF tube by specialist Catalin Fus.

Bands on clouds

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Theese bands seem to be shaddow bands projected on thin clouds. This phenomena defines this 2010 total solar eclipse in my oppinion

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.