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The Solar Eclipse 1st August 2008

First contact 09:34am

Here you can just make out First contact

Mid Eclipse 10:20am

This image is from mid eclipse.

Last contact 11:06am

And finally an image from last contact .

Solar Setup -  White light filter on ED80

This is the scope that I used for solar imaging.

This image show, I think, lunar mountains silhouetted against the sun. The whole event crammed into a few seconds...  
The animation above was made from the individual frames taken during the eclipse. Made using Adobe Image ready

The image on the left shows the uneven edge of the moon (mountains / craters silhouetted against the sun. Really chuffed with this one!