We were nervous for a long time. Would the weather play along or not? The preparations were complete: Tina and I were equipped with SoFi glasses and I had ordered and received an AstroSolar SoFi film from the Baader Planetarium. I used it to make a simple filter for my video camera and took a tripod with me.

Tina was lucky at her workplace at the Hypohochhaus in downtown Munich during the partial phase: blue skies and a great view of the sun slowly covering itself from 11:14 a.m. Unfortunately, the sky darkened just during totality at 12:38 p.m. and it just got very dark.

My location was in Unterföhring near the thermal power station. We were a little unlucky there during the partial phase and were even forced back into a driveway by the rain. Then, at exactly 12:35 p.m., a hole appeared in the clouds and we had a fantastic view of totality - a magnificent experience.

All of a sudden it became pitch black, twilight was visible everywhere on the horizon and the stars were in the sky - all at midday! It also became quite cold, but the wind that had been forecast failed to materialize. Animals were also not impressed by the natural spectacle.

Of course I filmed the event. This film has now been edited, but I will probably only be able to make it available here later. The video data in DV format is almost 700 MB in size and compression into MPEG-2 format does not result in a loss of quality. Nevertheless, I took a few still images and hope you like them. The slight distortion of the sun in the Y direction is not caused by the sun, but by the different definition of screen pixels. A pixel on a computer monitor is square, while a pixel in the PAL television standard is rectangular.