[Retrograde (Pete)]

25 years ago today that seven of us travelled to a small island off the coast of East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) to view a total solar eclipse.

Present were myself, Satchmo, Bob Milne and 4 others (friends Chris, Dino, Rob and Sue) and we all witnessed totality lasting 2 mins 59 secs.

I have a couple of photos of the event (taken on Kodachrome 200 slide-film) which I've sent off to be digitized. Hopefully I will get them back in a few days and can upload them then but in the meantime here's a pic of the front-page of an Indonesian newspaper from 2 days after the event.

Edit - digitized photos finally arrived and a few uploaded:
New pics in order: The eclipse path (our observing site in yellow) , the transport used for the last part of the journey, the tiny island we observed from (Pabahanan Island near Maratua Island), partial phase, prominences and two different exposures of the corona.