Annular Solar Eclipse underway – January 15th 2010

ewan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:18:53 +0000

The first solar eclipse of the year is happening today. Twitter is buzzing, you can see photos being added to Flickr, Google’s real-time search results are brilliant. Almost makes up for not being able to see it myself – we only saw a tiny 3.5% coverage here in Durban this morning (07h30 SAT) – or would have if it wasn’t cloudy!

Path details and animations for almost every city are available at the excellent UK Eclipses Online site (doubly useful since the NASA eclipse page seems to be down, probably buckling under the extra traffic – google cached version is available though). Wikipedia as usual has excellent info.

Some great photos from Nairobi, thanks @paulakahumbu

Update:

* MailOnline’s report – some great photos and a great video.
* NASA’s MODIS satellite caught an image of the Moon’s shadow over India and the Bay of Bengal (a roughly 300km wide shadow).
* SpaceWeather.com has a great gallery of eclipse photos (and commentary for most of them) – well worth seeing
ESA has a beautiful animated image of the eclipse as seen by their Sun-watching Proba-2.

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Annular Solar Eclipse underway – January 15th 2010