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Video of Total Solar Eclipse July 11th 2010
(in form of GIF animations, without sound)
Part 1 of 11 - "Here comes the shadow"
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Content:
This video of Total Solar Eclipse 2010 consists of frames 1 ... 999 (out of 10400) shot by the co-author with a Panasonic HDC SD707 high definition video camcorder.

It's a preliminary version with 1/3 of original resolution.

Processing:
All frames of this video were extracted as JPEGs from the original video (1920x1080). Some (too dark) portions were a bit enhanced in contrast. At end of totality (see parts 9 and 10) the color contrast was enhanced to improve view of chromosphere and prominences.
Then all frames were downscaled to 1/3 of original resolution (640x360) and Copyright of the co-author Waltraud Kraußer-Blättner and frame number were inserted at lower left/right border.
After that procedure a GIF animation was produced out of the single frames to ensure playing by all browsers without need of proprietary video codec plugins (this, of course, has the disadvantage of not providing sound ...).
The built-in delay between frames is set to 40 ms which gives a maximum frame rate equal to the frame rate of the original video of 25 frames/sec (depending on capabilities and performance of Your browser and computer).


Click into image to view and/or download video animation in 1/3 resolution in an extra browser window GIF Animation of video of Total Solar Eclipse 2010 / Part 1 of 11
Dismiss or keep extra browser window after viewing and/or downloading video animation

Legend:
Here (on this page) a downgraded version (240x135 pixels, i.e. 1/8 of full resolution, containing only every 3rd frame, but with adapted frame rate of 8.33 frames/sec is displayed as a "preview" to save bandwidth and to speed-up the loading of this page (filesizes of parts 1 .. 11 vary from ~1.2 to ~7.7 MB). The actual visible size may be shrunk or blown-up - depending on width of Your browser window (size is set to 60% of window width).

Howto:
Click to image for viewing the 1/3 resolution version with frame size of 640x360 pixels. File sizes of all parts 1 .. 11 vary from ~16.9 to ~148.5 MB - You should have a good internet bandwidth to achieve a reasonable download time !
When the film has completed one whole loop and is starting over to the beginning again You may save it to Your hard disk because now it's already in Your browser's local cache. For saving to disk, please follow the procedures of Your favourite browser.
For viewing of downloaded film file You may use mplayer or xanim on Linux or other Unix-like systems. I'm sorry, I can't give You some advise for MAC or Winblow$ systems.

Have a lot of fun !

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