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.