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Summary:
On July 11, 2010, the new Moon passed directly in front of the
sun, producing a solar eclipse of rare beauty across the South
Pacific. The path of totality crossed the Cook islands, Easter
island, the waters off Tahiti, and southern parts of Argentina
and Chile. [full
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eclipse maps]
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Stephane
Guisard,
Esater Island, Anakena beach Jul. 11, 2010 |
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Fantastic moment on the feet of the Ahu NauNau Moais. Weather got clear the same morning of the clipse, fantastic and unreal !
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Glenn Schneider,
(see above) 18deg 10.8min South, 126deg 9.2min west (East of Tahiti) at 39,000 feet on an aircraft intercepting the centerline at 1920UT. Jul. 11, 2010 |
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Quick look composite
of 5 frames from 2500 km east of Tahiti at 39,000 feet on
a centerline intercept jet charter. More to come later on
the website! Duration of totality 9min23sec (not a typo
- shadow chasing!)
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Howard Brown-Greaves,
Anaa Atoll, French Polynesia Jul. 11, 2010 |
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Taken from the
South of Anaa Atoll on the Astro Expeditions tour. A small
section from the main group set off on a pre-dawn convoy
of 3 small but very powerful speedboats for a bone jarring
20 miles trip to the South of the remote Atoll where we
enjoyed an extra 30 seconds of totality in stunning surroundings.
Canon 40D, 24mm lens, 1/15th Sec.
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Jay Pasachoff,
Easter Island Jul. 11, 2010 |
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Eclipse 2010
Composite A solar eclipse photo (gray and white) from the
Williams College Expedition to Easter Island in the South
Pacific (July 11, 2010) was embedded into an image of the
Sun's outer corona taken by the Large Angle Spectrometric
Coronagraph (LASCO) and shown in red false color. LASCO
uses a disk to blot out the bright sun and the inner corona
so that the faint outer corona can be monitored and studied.
Further, the dark silhouette of the moon was covered with
an image of the Sun taken in extreme ultraviolet light at
about the same time by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
(SDO). The composite brings out the correlation of structures
in the inner and outer corona. Credits: Williams College
Eclipse Expedition -- Jay M. Pasachoff, Muzhou Lu, and Craig
Malamut; SOHO’s LASCO image courtesy of NASA/ESA and Naval
Research Laboratory; solar disk image from NASA's Solar
Dynamics Observatory; compositing by Steele Hill, NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Francisco A. Rodriguez,
Atoll Tatakoto (French Polynesia). 1400km East from Tahiti.
Jul. 11, 2010 |
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80mm
f/5 Refractor + x2 duplicator + Canon EOS 350D. SAROS
Group 2010 Expedition. www.saros.org
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more
images: from
Cesare Guaita-Gruppo Astronomico Tradatese on Rapa Nui (Easter
island); from
Steve Harvey of Easter Island; from
Brad Templeton of Hao, French Polynesia
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