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TSE 2010 TATAKOTO, French Polynesia

Private expedition to Tikahana Motu, Tatakoto Atoll, French Polynesia
July 3rd-July 18th, 2010


Bengt Alfredsson on Tikahana Motu


Bengt's Excellent Adventure 

A flash gallery of pictures of the atoll, life on a small island, our eclipse adventure and the motus!

Bengt's Web Site
http://hem.bredband.net/benalf/
Doesn't have any 2010 results yet!


TSE 2010 results  

              

Photo's Above :  [Left] Bengt used his goretex rain jacket to keep the rain off his computer. His wide angle camera and telephoto can be seen behind tethered to the computer. [Center] Outlook from Bengt's observing spot. Not a bad place for an eclipse.  [Right] First Apearance of the Sun after sunrise.


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Photographs Above :   starting 30s or so before second contact and taken with a Nikon D300 + 180mm f2.8 prime lens controlled by Eclipse Orchestrator.  The blue cast in the lower left image is an artefact of processing designed to bring up the contrast in the shadow bands captured in this image.

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Photograph Above :   Diamond ring at second contact and taken with a Nikon D300 + 180mm f2.8 prime lens controlled by Eclipse Orchestrator.  

 


Photograph Above :   Just before diamond ring shadow bands became visible on the clouds and taken with a Nikon D300 + 180mm f2.8 prime lens controlled by Eclipse Orchestrator.  
The blue cast in the lower left image is an artefact of processing to bring up the contrast in the shadow bands captured in this image.


Photograph Above :  Composite of two raw images. Each exposure has had it's dynamic range extended using "compensated fill flash."  This is a digital technique involving the use of alpha masks and has nothing to do with the  use of a real flash during the eclipse.  

 

Photograph Above :  Composite of five raw images. Each exposure has had it's dynamic range extended using "compensated fill flash."  This is a digital technique involving the use of alpha masks and has nothing to do with the  use of a real flash during the eclipse.  

           

[Left] Things were looking pretty grim about half an hour after sunrise. [Center] View up the beach. Joe is in the centre of the picture between the boats and the exposed reef and bengt's equipment appears to be just in front of the shack.  In fact, it's behind the shack down towards the water line on the other cove. [Right] Bill Speare with Christian and Michel out boatmen just after fist contact.


Links to individual observer's reports and photographs
TSE2010 Home Page        Group report as sent to SEML on July 14th.                        

Joe Cali                         - Images from  70mm f6.2 APO refractor;
                                     - full frame fisheye totality flash slide show;
                                     
- wide field time-lapse video;
                                     
- written account of observations on Tikahana Motu;
                                     
- pictures of shadow bands projected on clouds;
                                     - flash gallery of pictures from the eclipse and Tatakoto  

Bengt Alfredsson          - Images from  200mm f2.8 APO telephoto;                                      <-  YOU ARE ON THIS PAGE
                                     - flash gallery of pictures from a great week on Tatakoto. 

Larry Stevens               - Images from  90mm f11 Maksutov.  
&  Michelle Bales            (still under construction)

Matthew Poulton           - Flash gallery of pictures from a fantastic week on Tatakoto 

Geoff Sims                   - Wide field and close up stills;
                                     - two really well-edited movies : -
                                            - one of the eclipse;
                                            - one covering the eclipse and our whole week on Tatakoto. 

Emily Love                     - First timer's impressions of the eclipse.  

Bill Speare                    - Written report.

Bob Pine                       - Bob's account of the eclipse from an almost deserted Tumukuru ( the town on Tatakoto).