TOTAL ECLIPSE 11 JUNE 1983 Taken by Peter Lowenstein on June 11, 2000 @ Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Here is an animation and three still pictures showing emergence from a total solar eclipse observed by me from Paga Hill, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Saturday 11 June 1983. I was lucky to capture a black and white sequence of photographs of the Sun reappearing after totality at 15.42 LT (04.42 UT) which included a magnificent corona at maximum eclipse, Baily’s Beads a few minutes later and then a bright diamond ring. The pictures were taken using a tripod-mounted Olympus OM2-N 35 mm SLR camera attached to a Tamron 200-500 mm Zoom Lens set to 500mm with a Komura Telemore x2 extender providing a total focal length of 1000mm. Exposures around totality were several seconds at F11 using Kodak Tri-X 5062 ISO 400 panchromatic black and white negative film. The film was home developed and several sets of prints were painstakingly produced on Ilford 10 x 10” fine matt medium contrast bromide paper using a Durst M16 photographic enlarger. Although slightly yellowed with age after 34 years, still good enough to be scanned at 1200 dpi using an Epson Stylus C4300 to produce the attached images. Hope these give you some idea of the beauty to be expected from the forthcoming eclipse on 21 August 2017? Details of the 1983 eclipse available at https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/1983-june-11