2002tse

Total Solar Eclipse
2002 December 04

This eclipse was viewed from Africa in the morning or Australia in the late afternoon when the sun was low in the sky. 

Map of the path of the lunar shadow.
Global map of the lunar shadow.
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Animation of the passage of the lunar shadow created in WinEclipse, a program developed by the late Heinz Scsibrany.

Visible-light image of the shadow over the South Indian Ocean as seen from Meteosat 2 at 0830 UTC. Image: EUMETSAT.
A false-colour image of the eclipse shadow from Meteosat 2 at 0830 UTC, using infrared and visible wavelengths. Image: EUMETSAT.
A close-up view of the passage of the shadow over southern Africa. The band of frontal cloudiness deprived many observers of seeing the eclipse over South Africa. Images: EUMETSAT.
The view of the eclipse shadow southwest of Australia from GMS 5. Image: JMA.
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Meteosat 5 view of the eclipse shadow. Images: EUMETSAT

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Meteosat 7 view of the eclipse shadow. Images: EUMETSAT

Updated January 2021

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