Video of the (grazing) annular solar eclipse October 3rd 2005. Attention: unzipped the video is about 2,5 GB (!) which may not harm todays harddisks, but takes a quarter of the disk, that has recorded it in a good old IBM 380XD with 96MB RAM ... Site: Tunisia, Matrouha, close to algerian border and tunisian jail ;-) in the desert. WGS84: N 33°21'30.4'' E 07°46'26.4'' height: 42m ;-) +- 4m According Alfons Gabel supposed to be IN 1820m of theoretical southern limit with a definitely closed ring. Time: Approx. starting 3 minutes before maximum, which was supposed to be at 09:16:01 UT at an position-angle of 44° and at an altitude of the sun of 43° (again: ThanX to Alfons for precalculations!!!). Accoustic DCF77-Time-Signal didn't work :-( So at the end of the video, the WebCam was held onto a Garmin GPSMAP76s display to get at least the GPS-time reverse for analysis. Sorry for the additional work ... Equipment: ASTELE 70 with ToUCam Pro 840K (the new, silver one) and focal reducer of Teleskop-Service.de and Baader Astro-Solar-Filter ND5.0. Mounted on a roughly paralactic aligned tripod with 3D-Head. Manual guiding. Optics in detail: Russian Maksutov-Cassegrain ASTELE70 D 70mm F 890mm f/12.5 The exakt ratio of the focal-reducer is unknown, sorry. But it is _the_ reducer, sold anywhere with the ToUCam. Thus Exakt focal lenght to be measured out, if needed - sorry. The Video: Philips VRecord and VProperty were used. Size: 640x480 Pixel 10 Frames/Second Exposure-Time in the beginning 1/2500 second.Later,whenafraidthattoo dark changed to 1/1500 second and later again slightly changed brightness ... Shortly after 3rd contact I turned the latitude in wrong direction (fortunately there is no sound on the video) so I may have missed some beads there until I got the sicle back on the screen. Sorry for that, but anyway there might be some work to analyse. Whoever will do that: GOOD LUCK!!! For any questions, please contact And now, have fun !!! Nefta, Tunisia, 20051003, 18:43 UT, Torsten Schäfer