The obsevation of the annular solar eclipse 2005

On April 8th ,2005 we obseved where we went to about 5km southwest from Bunta Banco to the coastline in Costa Rica. Unfortunatly we couldn't obseve to an eclipse for clouds.
Next date are calculated by the soft of an eclipse navigator from NASA's besselian element .

Obsevation place:Punta Banco 8゚19'16.9"N 83゚05'27.6"W altitude 0m
annular eclipse Time Phase Alt.  D   P   Z
                      UT ° ° Q V
First     20:51:58.6 0.000 41.0 272.7 237.1 151.7
Second  22:09:35.1 0.997 21.9 274.8 261.7 177.7
Maximam 22:09:40.8 0.998 21.8 274.8 330.1 246.1 continue 00m11.5s
Third    22:09:46.6 0.997 21.8 274.8 38.6 314.6
Forth    23:17:35.1 0.000 5.1  276.9 62.4 340.1(an average of moon rim)

The thermo and humidity wasn't recorded the data by no reason and only dates .
Both dates were right down .First recorded as follow .

30.3゚C 63.2% 14:45 Localtime(UT+6h)
27.6゚C 82.3% 17: 00      〃

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