We would like to thank all the governmental and private organizations of Elazig for their great help during the observation of the 11 August 1999 total solar eclipse and to people of Elazig for their hospitality.

 
  The following pages are to be dedicated to the people who have lost their lives during the Marmara earthquake.
 

 
   The beginning of July was the time at which few days were left for the 1999 solar total eclipse. All preparations in Istanbul were completed at the end of July. The observation equipment's were carried to Elazig by bus on August, 2. Our eclipse team met the Italian and  the Slovakian teams at Yesilkoy airport on August 3. The group had a nice flight and arrived in Elazig in the evening. The  temperature at the time of arrival was found to be above the normal value. We had been in Elazig in the previous years and had not observed such a high temperature. 
   It was  seen easily that the people of Elazig had been already  prepared well. We moved to the sugar factory guest house where we would spend the rest of the week. The next day having started the preparations for the eclipse, we went to Harput with the Japanese team. We would share this previously assigned observation park with the other scientific teams. Each team started their preparations as soon as their working areas were shown.
   Every day, our team left the guest house early in the morning, continued the preparations till the noon time which was terribly hot and then came back to the guest house for lunch break. We were going back to Harput after a short break. Preparations were going on and nothing unusual had occurred until August  6 when we noticed the clouds in the west horizon. Precautions were taken for a probable rain shower. No rain fall was seen in the observation park although centrum of Elazig and sugar factory have suffered heavy rain.
   Our observation park was getting more crowded with the new professional observers which arrived. Excitement had reached a climax when  we had two days left for the great event, but clouds reappeared on August 9, when the last trials were carried out. Appearance of these clouds just at the time of totality made us feel highly disappointed. Hesitation of whether to go to Diyarbakir or not, come to an end as state meteorological and internet weather forecasts promised sunny weather for August 11.
   Finally we had the great day for which  we had been prepared for three years. We were ready to take photographs and concluded our experimental research. Some photographs for different phases of the eclipse are published below.

KANDILLI OBSERVATORY, ECLIPSE TEAM


ELAZIG:
Atila Ozguc, Engin Sozen, Tamer Atac, Levent Altas, Ayten Duzgelen, Cuneyt A. Genc, Huseyin Kurt, Mukremin Kilic, Selcuk Atac, Cetin Yilmaz, Kursat Aras, Atilla Yilmaz, Adem Okul.
Vojtech Rusin, Peter Zimmerman, Klocok Lubomir, Manik Karol.
Alessandro Cacciani, Cimen Ozguç, Tansu Sozen.
William C. Livingston, Leon Ofman.
Geomagnetic observations : 
Stuart R.C. Malin, Mustafa Kemal Tuncer, Oya Yazıcı Cakın, S. Bulent Tank
OSMANCIK:
Hasmet Bolge, Arzu Bolge.
SIVAS:
Gokhan Sen.
BATMAN:
Serkan Yılmaz

PICTURES FROM OUR OBSERVATION PARK


 

The photographs may not be published without authorized permission of the Kandilli Observatory. All rights are reserved.

OBSERVERS:

Atila Ozguc, Engin Sozen, Tamer Atac, Levent Altas, Ayten Duzgelen, Cuneyt A. Genc, Huseyin Kurt, Mukremin Kilic, Selcuk Atac, Cetin Yilmaz, Kursat Aras, Atilla Yilmaz

 The  pictures below were taken by Minolta Dynax 500 si, AF ZOOM 75-300mm zoom lens (f/4.5-5.6) and Nikon FE10, 60-300 Soligor Zoom lens (f/4.5-5.6). We used Kodak Royal Gold 200 ASA film. This photo is a composite from different phases of the eclipse.

ECLIPSE VIDEO

 The  pictures below were taken by using Leica M1 camera with Kodak Royal Gold 100 ASA film. The camera was mounted on a refractor with 700 mm focal length and 60mm objective aperture (f/d:11.7).



 The  pictures below were taken by using Minolta Dynax 700 si camera with Kodak Royal Gold 100 ASA film. The camera  was mounted on a reflector with 1260 mm focal length and 200mm objective aperture (f/d:6.3).
To see the large version of the images please click on the small images.



Click on the images for a larger version
Composite of SOHO images and Kandilli Observatory images taken during the eclipse
on 11 August 1999.

This composites has been generated from the Lasco C2 and EIT images and Kandilli Observatory's composites images. The images have been carefully processed and aligned to show the  degree of correlation between features in the two images.

Foreign Aid Agencies & Bank Accounts for Turkey Earthquake click here

 
TECOnet STATUS REPORT AFTER the total solar eclipse 1999 click here

We are grateful to
DIMAGE DIGITAL IMAGING http://www.dimage.com.tr  e-mail: dimage@superonline.com
PATATES BASKI http://www.patatesbaski.com.tr  e-mail: cigizog@ibm.net
 companies  which helped us to  scan our films.
 

 REPORT OF THE 1999 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE CLICK HERE
 TO SEE OUR PREPARATIONS BEFORE THE ECLIPSE CLICK  HERE

This page is prepared by Tamer Ataç on  September 21, 1999, please send your suggestions or problems to Tamer Ataç e-mail: atac@boun.edu.tr