The following sequence of images were taken during the partial phases before totality by Mike Lancaster from
Gündogdü on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. From Gündogdü first contact (the Moon begins to encroach on the Sun's disk) was around 09:38 UT
(12:38 local time) and second
contact (the start of totality) was around 10:55 UT (13:55 local time). All
pictures were taken using a hand-held Olympus Camedia C-4000Z digital camera pointed at a Meade 40mm Super
Plössl eyepiece inserted into a 90mm Meade ETX-90 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. A screw-on BCF white light solar filter was also used on the
telescope.
