I went to Germany and Austria on the Astronomy Magazine trip, run by A1 Specialty Tours. The trip astronomer was Rich Talcott, one of the magazine editors. The original plan was to view the eclipse in the English Garden in Munich (their “Central Park”), but heavy clouds caused us to go southeast on eclipse day. We set up in a field outside the town of Obing near Chiemsee (a vacation resort lake near the Austrian border). The sun was out for the early partial phases and I took some photos, but then a heavy cloud rolled in and it rained! Miraculously, the clouds parted during totality for us to see the corona for about half a minute! I was able to see prominences naked eye. We had a very long diamond ring, then it started to rain again. A few minutes later it cleared up again and I was able to set my camera up again for more photos. I narrated into a cassette tape player during the eclipse and have excerpts listed below.

Original Itinery (saved from A1 website)

Eclipse Related Photos

Vacation Photos of the Trip

Some of the non-eclipse photos were lost due to equipment failure at Kodak. What the Kodak machine did was treat a 24 exposure roll as if it were 12 exposures, and two of my 36 exposure rolls as if they were 24 exposures. The rolls had sequential processing numbers, but the missing negatives were not pre-pended to the next roll, they were just disgarded! You can read the
Letter from Kodak.

Narration recordings were made with a cassette tape recorder and short segments were converted to WAV files. These WAV files are large and may take a while to access, so their sizes are shown. Click on the event name to start each download.

Event	WAV File Size	Length
11:33 a.m. (~15 minutes after 1st contact)	622 Kbytes	13 seconds
12:37 p.m. (~3 minutes before 2nd contact)	1305 Kbytes	27 seconds
Corona	685 Kbytes	14 seconds
Diamond Ring	1056 Kbytes	22 seconds