Eclipse over Africa
21 June 2001

Eclipse day with Voyages Jules Verne - A narrative of 21 June 2001
Scientific Observations: Results of Temperature and humidity measurements, and pinhole camera experiment.
The Total Solar Eclipse Images
- Sunspot group - video screen shot
- Partials in
- Into Totality - diamond ring in and prominences
- Totality - Corona - different exposures of the corona
- Mid Totality - Sun, Jupiter and horizon (Digital Ixus and Pentax SLR)
- Eclipsed Sun and Jupiter: Photograph and video screen shot.
- Out of Totality - diamond ring out
- Montage of 2nd and 3rd contact with totality: video screen shots.
Pictures of the day - people, the place, the event
- Location: Eclipse track; detailed map; Satellite picture
- Panorama of the eclipse site (~150kb, requires Java))
- Val and Andrew White and one of us together
- Guest Lecturers: Peter Cattermole and Douglas Arnold
- Eclipse photographer Michael Maunder
- Africa prepares: Eclipse advert; Eclipse stamps; Poster
Headline news
- The Herald (Zimbabwe)
- The Post (Zambia)
- Times of Zambia
- Zambia Daily Mail
Audio extracts
- Ululations: the sounds of totality - An MP3 audio file (350Kb) of the reaction to totality of nearby Africans
Astro-photos from the Southern Hemisphere
- Star trails around the South Celestial Pole (20 and 10 minute exposures)
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Alpha/Beta Centauri and Crux
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Pleiades and Taurus rising in the pre-dawn sky
- Mars and the sting of the scorpion