The lunar shadow is approaching - view to the south-west-west horizon.
Total eclipse beginning - view to the south-west-west horizon.
Before the end of the total eclipse - view to the south-west-west horizon.
Note the street lights automatically switched on and the thick cirrus clouds on the south-west horizon.

Erciyes, a 3,917m high volcano about 50 kilometers far to the south-east-east
after the first minute of totality.

Detail of Erciyes volcano during totality.

© 2006 Jan Čechal