by Sheridan Williams
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As in the soft and sweet eclipse
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An annular eclipse is one where the Moon is too small to cover the Sun completely, and leaves a proportion of the Sun showing. Annular eclipses can pass unnoticed because the remaining part of the Sun is so bright the environment is not noticeably dimmed.
Here is a compilation of images and web sites from various locations.| Location | Long (W) | Lat (N) | Observer |
Best View |
| Coldbackie, near Tongue | 4° 23'W | 58° 30' | Norman NcNab |
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| Butt of Lewis | Ross Bennie & Morven McLean |
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| Dornoch, Scotland | 4° 01'W | 57° 53' | Peter Hancock |
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| Near Melvaig, Rossshire | Fran Cree & Chris Barrett |
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Dornoch, Scotland |
Lee Montgomerie |
http://www.roast.iconbar.com/graphics/galleries/eclipse2003/ | ||
| Vienna, Austria | Heinz Scsibrany |
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| Durness | 4° 45'W | 58° 34' | Jörg Schoppmeyer |
 www.astronomie.de/sonnensystem/sofi/d-2003/index.htm |
| Sango Bay | 4° 44'W | 58° 34' |
Julien & Patrick Onderbeke
Therese & Lieve Ongena
Annie Schoenmaeckers & Ronald Vandenberge
Hilde Vandenbossche & Walter Dierickx
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| 10km above sea level, in flight NW34 from Seattle to Amsterdam. Location somewhere between Faroe and Shetland Islands, in the area when the eclipse was annular at 03:49 UT. | Olivier Staiger |
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| Mundesley, Norfolk | 1° 26'E | 52° 53' | Filipe and Lucia |
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| Tarbat Ness Portmahomack Easter Ross | John Robertson |
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| Portmahomack Easter Ross | Michael Kunz | http://www.michaelkunze.de/ | ||
| Leicester, England | Geoff Harrison |  |
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| Bettyhill, Scotland | Pam and David Sykes |
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| Ben Hope, Scotland | Colin Cadden |
 http://www.pentlandhills.com/ |
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| Suter Hill, Cromarty | Paul Harris |
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| Mountain "Saile", 2404m a.s.l, above Innsbruck | 11° 19'E | 47° 12' | Andreas Fink |
 http://geo4.uibk.ac.at/users/fink/homepage/alp_b4.html |
| Olafsfjördur, Iceland | Timo Karhula | |||
| Eyjafjordur fjord about 15 km north of the town of Akureyi, Iceland | Fred Espenak | http://www.mreclipse.com/SEreports/ASE2003/A03Espenak.html | ||
| Skagafjordur fiord), Iceland | 20° 08'W | 66° 08' | Raymond Brooks | Success, but no picture yet |
| John o' Groats | 3° 04'W | 58° 39' | Fred Bruenjes | Clouded out but here's the story: http://www.moonglow.net/eclipse/2003may31/index.html |
| Shetland | 1° 09' | 60° 09' | Stephen McCann | Clouded out |
| Mey, Caithness | 3° 13'W | 58° 39' | Sheridan Williams | Clouded out |
| Isafjordur, Iceland |
Christophe Marlot |
Success, but no picture yet | ||
| Sinclair Bay, north of Wick | Val and Andrew White | http://www.vanda.demon.co.uk/travel/scotland/Eclipse_Report.htm | ||
| Iceland from the air | Jay Pasachoff | http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipse/eclipse03/2003_iceland/2003iceland_page1.htm | ||
| Hohen Preissenberg, Bavaria | AFP | http://www.smh.com.au/photography/regular/snapshots/image/2003/06/01/image.html?picindex=0 | ||
| Athens | http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/05/31/eclipse.reut/index.html | |||
| Germany | 11° 55'E | 51° 38' | Marc Weihrauch | |
| Delfzijl, Netherlands | Reinder Bouma | http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/ | ||
| Nesoddtangen, Norway | Arne Danielsen | http://home.online.no/~arnedani/astronomy/astrophoto/eclipse/eclipse.htm | ||
| Eyjafjord, Iceland | Richard Monk | http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rimonk/index.htm | ||
| Iceland | Snaevarr Gudmundsson | http://www.almanak.hi.is/myrkmynd.html | ||
| Ackergill, Scotland | "Ecliptomaniacs" | http://www.ecliptomaniacs.com/ | ||
| Vilvoorde, Belgium | Willy Menekens |
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Paul Sutherland writes:
I went with Robin Scagell to Melvich where we manage to see it from about 5
minutes after annularity onwards. We were not unhappy.
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