This event proved to be difficult to reach because of the COVID-19 pandemic and most observers were forced to watch the partial eclipse. Weather was not particularly helpful.
Track of the 2021 annular solar eclipse
Animation of the passage of the lunar shadow created in WinEclipse, a program developed by the late Heinz Scsibrany.
GOES 16 false-colour view of the eclipse shadow at 1000 UTC. The centre of the shadow is over Northwestern Ontario, north of Lake Superior, at this time but is not visible because of the poor sensitivity of the satellite visible-light sensors and the low light levels of early sunrise. Instead, the shadow of the partial phases of the eclipse are seen as the brownish smear across the top right of the image.
Animation of GOES 16 red-light images showing the eclipse shadow moving across the limb of the Earth. Images: NASA/RAMBB.
Meteosat-8 animation of the passage of the eclipse shadow across the northern limb of the Earth. Images: EUMETSAT.
An image of the shadow of the Moon at 0957 UTC as seen from NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). Image: NASA.As above, at 1103 UTC.As above, at 1206 UTC.Russia’s Arctica-M satellite captured this image of the lunar shadow from a high-altitude, high-latitude vantage point. To view other animations of the shadow passage from a unique perspective, go here (Twitter). Image: Roscosmos.
