Sun analemma 2011
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello

An analemma is a diagram showing the position of the Sun as seen from a fixed location at the same Universal Time over a year.
This started on December 9, 2010. For this purpose I created a support that allowed the digicam to be positioned by interlocking.
The scene shot was taken on September 18, 2011 from Pollimo National Park.

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Analemma A14 2016
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello

An analemma is a diagram showing the position of the Sun as seen from a fixed location at the same Universal Time over a year.
This started on December 9, 2010. For this purpose I created a support that allowed the digicam to be positioned by interlocking.
The scene shot was taken on December 25, 2015 near Mottola, Apulia.

This image is distributed under the CC0 license, but to use it please provide the credits correctly as in the info. Any other use is abuse.

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Mercury Transit on November 13, 1986
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello


Transit of Mercury over the Sun on November 13, 1986
taken with 114/900mm + Praktica MTL5 Kodak VR100 film.

Very thick fog in Lecce - Borgo San Nicola, but I wanted to capture the phenomenon at all costs, visible only in the final phases, shortly after sunrise, for about twenty minutes.
The solar filter was too dense, so I opted for an improvised eccentric diaphragm to put in front of the 114/900mm telescope (a 6cm circular hole drilled in the bottom of a cardboard box in a few seconds) and shutter speeds of 1/500 and 1/1000 sec with Kodak VR100 film.
I was lucky and these remain among the few images taken from Italy of the event.
Scanning from originals negative originals with HP DeskJet 2710 and processing.

Edit: December 28, 2023

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Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Sequence taken from Oria (Brindisi), Italy with newtonian 114/900mm. Very cloudy sky.

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Solar Eclipse on August 11, 1999
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello

114/900 + Kodak Elitechrome 100
(This is a duplication of a slide)

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