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Published 2013 | Published
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Solar Eclipses Observed from Antarctica

Abstract

Aspects of the solar corona are still best observed during totality of solar eclipses, and other high-resolution observations of coronal active regions can be observed with radio telescopes by differentiation of occultation observations, as we did with the Jansky Very Large Array for the annular solar eclipse of 2012 May 20 in the US. Totality crossing Antarctica included the eclipse of 2003 November 23, and will next occur on 2021 December 4; annularity crossing Antarctica included the eclipse of 2008 February 7, and will next occur on 2014 April 29. Partial phases as high as 87% coverage were visible and were imaged in Antarctica on 2011 November 25, and in addition to partial phases of the total and annular eclipses listed above, partial phases were visible in Antarctica on 2001 July 2011, 2002 December 4, 2004 April 19, 2006 September 22, 2007 September 11, and 2009 January 26, and will be visible on 2015 September 13, 2016 September 1, 2017 February 26, 2018 February 15, and 2020 December 14. On behalf of the Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the IAU, the poster showed the solar eclipses visible from Antarctica and this article shows a subset (see www.eclipses.info for the full set). A variety of investigations of the Sun and of the response of the terrestrial atmosphere and ionosphere to the abrupt solar cutoff can be carried out at the future eclipses, making the Antarctic observations scientifically useful.

Additional Information

© 2013 International Astronomical Union. Published online: 30 January 2013. JMP's research on the solar eclipses of 2012 is supported by grant AGS-1047726 from the Solar Physics Program of the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences of the US National Science Foundation. For the 2003 eclipse, Jay Pasachoff was part of the EurAstro Association team on the Croydon Travel chartered 747 over Antarctica. I thank Michael Zeiler (eclipse-maps.com) for the maps. See http://www.williams.edu/ astronomy/eclipse.

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