Went out to the balcony for some fresh air and saw this beautiful sky with the rays of the sun shooting up behind the clouds. A few minutes later the colors switched from blue to yellow orange and magenta, the sun was almost down to the horizon disappearing fast and a crow gliding past….
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Sun blocked
Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, eclipse, sun on Jan 15th, 2010
Annular Partial Solar Eclipse, Dhaka Bangladesh, 15 January 2010. First solar eclipse of the year today. We watched the moon begin to cover the sun, gradually increasing the coverage. Here, at the time of maximum eclipse it was a partial eclipse but still fascinating to see the shimmering rays because the apparent size of the [...]
Total Solar Eclipse – 22-July-2009 Dhaka Bangladesh
Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, eclipse, sun, sunrise on Jul 22nd, 2009
Total [92.7%] Solar Eclipse, Dhaka Bangladesh 22 July 2009. The morning started out bright but gradually a cloud cover spread over. Luckily, a wind kept blowing the clouds out fast and we had many nice glimpses of the progression of the eclipse through the gaps. Waiting for the Sun   Ah! Suddenly, it had started! [...]
The almost-setting sun was behind this flower [can anyone ID this flower?] and made a kind of ‘halo’ of the spiky stamens. The background was too bright, I was shooting into the sun light, so if I exposed correctly for the background I lost all detail in the flower. Using a pair of warmed-up [TLA1 gel [...]
Partial solar eclipse, Dhaka 19 March 2007
Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, eclipse, nature, sun on Mar 19th, 2007
Eclipse to start 6:32 AM. Sunrise at about 6:12 AM…. waiting for the sun …and it comes up a pale pink gradually turning orange… a crow flies across. CLICK! I get so engrossed in the birds and the far away Mosque minarets, the eclipse starts and I miss the beginning. Â Its 6:40… oh time [...]