August 11, 1999

On August 11th, 1999, the moon was positioned between the sun and the earth in such a way as to completely cover the sun's disk. The moon's shadow was projected on the earth, thus creating a total eclipse of the sun. At 28 minutes past noon, after the moon had progressively masked the sun's disk, this shadow covered the southern half of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. This region was then plunged in complete darkness during almost 2 minutes. For that occasion, NASA made the following map of the path of the eclipse through France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.

Unfortunately Luxembourg was covered entirely by clouds that day. Nevertheless we managed to take some pictures during a few seconds of small holes in the sky. Not with our 12" Meade telescope though, but with old fashioned analog cameras.

Pictures taken in Luxembourg city (CANON UC-X30Hi)

Pictures taken in Born (CANON UC200)