I observed the total solar eclipse of July 11, 2010 on Tatakoto Atoll in French Polynesia as a member of the international expedition perfectly organized by Shadia Habbal, the Chair of Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. My participation, equipment lending and transport was enabled by large support of University of Hawaii and support of Peter Aniol and Astelco Systems GmbH Munich, Zdeněk Andrýsek (Czech Republic), Achim Mende and Dany Cardoen (Germany).
 
The observing conditions were far from to be perfect. Thin clouds shortened the time suitable for acquiring good data to several dozens of seconds and changed image processing to a time-consuming puzzle. Fortunately the exposure sequence startegy enabled me to combine data from different cameras and finally the result is very near to what I had expected before the eclipse.
 

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Miloslav Druckmüller
Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
druckmuller@fme.vutbr.cz
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