It is less than 3 minutes, but it looks almost as if the lunar disk is rushing over the solar disk. I take some shots with varying shutterspeed and also with my second body with wide angle. Before I realise it, third contact is over. The brightness, during annularity can best be compared with a dark sky during a heavy rain. I continue to take a few shots of the reducing eclipse.
Most people move off immediately after third contact.
My Malay friends from the class take some pictures of them and us together and shake hands before they go to the school bus. During the very latest phase of the eclipse, we walk around the eclipse stalls, look at the impressive equipment, buy a few souvenirs, discuss with some people. We have been very lucky with the weather. The first phase was quite clouded, but before, during, and after annularity it was perfect. Our taxi driver and his wife, are waiting for us.