Images of the sun during the Eclipse of 1999
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Images of the sun during the Eclipse of 1999
Image: © John Rostron Taken: 11 Aug 1999
In Essex, the eclipse of August 11th was only partial. Near the maximum, the sun was filtering through the foliage of trees in my garden to create a series of images of the partially eclised sun.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
51.567346
Longitude
0.563707