FONT's Out of this World Photo Gallery

Aurora Borealis - Iceland, in October
Total Solar Eclipse - Turkey, 1999 
Total Solar Eclipse - Venezuela, 1998
Total Solar Eclipse - Bolivia 1994
Total Solar Eclipse - Costa Rica, 1991

Aurora Borealis

The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights,
as seen during FONT Iceland tours during October. 

Total Eclipse of the Sun - Turkey

Photograph of the August 11, 1999 Total Solar Eclipse, taken during a FONT birding tour in Turkey. The duration of totality was 2 minutes and 23 seconds.
(Photo from a hillside near Kastamonu, Turkey.)

This was the 4th total eclipse of the sun, during FONT birding tours. Others were in Costa Rica, Bolivia, & Venezuela.

There will be another total solar eclipse in Turkey on March 29, 2006. FONT will be there.

Total Eclipse of the Sun - Venezuela 
Photograph of the February 26, 1998 Total Solar Eclipse, taken during a FONT birding tour in Venezuela. The duration of totality was 4 minutes and 9 seconds.

There will not be another total eclipse of the sun in the Western Hemisphere (aside from a small part of Canadian Arctic), until the year 2017.

Total Eclipse of the Sun - Costa Rica

Photograph of the July 1991 Total Solar Eclipse, taken during a FONT birding tour in Costa Rica. The duration of totality was 6 minutes and 54 seconds. 

This was the first of 4 total solar eclipses that have been seen during FONT birding tours.

Total Eclipse of the Sun - Bolivia

Photographs (above & below) of the November 1994 Total Solar Eclipse, taken during a FONT birding tour in Bolivia. The duration of totality was 4 minutes and 24 seconds.

This eclipse was observed in the Andes of southern Bolivia,
at nearly 10,000 feet above sea-level.
Photos below are of local people at the observation site.

Local people in Bolivia, where our group observed a total solar eclipse, during a FONT birding tour mostly in Argentina, November 1994.