Adelaide
Shot taken from my hotel window.
South Australia countryside
This is pretty much what south Australia looks like until you get a
little further north, which is turns into desert. There's a drought
going on right now, though, so I don't think it's usually this brown.
This shot was taken from a bus we were taking to the eclipse site.
Before eclipse
There are some people from the group who had brought their telescopes
and cameras and set them all up before the eclipse. I just had my
little hand-held camera and binoculars.
Finger lens
During the partial phase of the eclipse, people were crossing their
fingers like this to make a small lens. The cresent-shape between
fingers is essentially the cresent shape of the sun.
Right before totality
This is shortly before totality. Notice how it's starting to get dark
and kind of creepy.
Total eclipse!
The sun's corona over-exposed the image a bit, but that football-shaped
thing is the moon. It's actually round in real life. :) The neat thing
about this picture is that you can see the umbral cone, where inside the
cone we saw a total eclipse, and people outside the cone saw a partial
eclipse. In the picture, the shadow looks like a triangle with the base
at the top of the picture and the point at the bottom.
Partial eclipse sunset
This is the gorgeous sunset we saw after the eclipse. (This picture is
courtesy of Jon and Francie Hudson, some people on the trip.)
More
eclipse shots
taken by Cherrill Spencer.
Downtown Quorn
This is a South Australia outback town named Quorn. It was quite the
center of activity.
After this we headed back to Adelaide, and then flew through Sydney on our way to Ayers Rock.
Sydney on fire
There were major bush fires all around Sydney as we were flying over
it. Luckily they were all out by the time we were there the next week.
On to Ayers Rock.
