2012ase

Annular Solar Eclipse
2012 May 20-21

The May 20/21, 2012 eclipse was widely viewed across the U. S. Southwest in the late afternoon. 

Map of the track of the lunar shadow on May 20, 2012. Track: Xavier Jubier.
Global map of the track of the May 20, 2012, annular eclipse shadow.

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

GOES 15 image at 2100 UTC showing the shadow of the Moon on the upper left limb of the Earth. Image: NASA.
MTSAT-2 image of the eclipse shadow over the North Pacific at 0000 UTC May 21. Image: Japan Space Agency (JSA).
A view of the eclipse shadow over the Northwest Pacific from the Terra satellite. Image: NASA

GOES 15 (GOES West) animation of the shadow passage across the Pacific and into North America. Images: NASA.

A view of the shadow from GOES 15 as it crosses the U.S. west coast. Images: NASA.

Animation of the eclipse shadow as seen from MTSAT-2. Images: JSA.

Updated January 2021

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