2020tse

Total Solar Eclipse
2020 December 14

Alas, COVID-19 kept most eclipse expeditions at home for this one.

Map of the path of the lunar shadow
Global view of the eclipse path.

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

GOES 16 view of the eclipse shadow at 1520 UTC. Image NASA
EPIC camera image from the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) satellite. DSCOVR resides at one of the Earth’s Lagrangian points. Image: NASA.

 

GOES 16 image of the shadow as it approaches the coast of Chile. Extensive cloud cover can be seen over Chile, but Argentina is largely clear. Image: NASA.

GOES 16 animation of the lunar shadow. Images: NASA/NESDIS.

High-resolution animation of the eclipse shadow over Chile. Images: NASA.

High-resolution animation of the passage of the eclipse shadow over western Argentina. Piedra del Aguila is close to the centre of the image. Images: NASA.

Enlarged view of the passage of the shadow over South America. Images: NASA.

Animation of the thermal infrared images during the passage of the eclipse shadow. Thermal infrared is energy emitted by underlying surfaces according to their temperature. The decline in temperature during the eclipse is visible as a change from dark to light gray on the ground across non-cloudy parts of Argentina. Images: NASA.

Updated January 2021
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