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Composite Image Of 2010 Eclipse Washington DC (SPX) Jul 16, 2010 
A solar eclipse photo (gray and white) from the Williams College Expedition to Easter Island in the South Pacific (July 11, 2010) was embedded with an image of the Sun's outer corona taken by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on the SOHO spacecraft and shown in red false color.
LASCO uses a disk to blot out the bright sun and the inner corona so that the faint outer corona ... read moreSouth Pacific Eclipse 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 12, 2010It's every vacationer's dream: You stretch out on a white sandy beach for a luxurious nap under the South Pacific sun. The caw of distant gulls wafts across the warm sea breeze while palm fronds rustle gently overhead. You take it all in through half-closed eyes. Could Paradise get any better? This weekend it will. On Sunday, July 11th, the new Moon will pass directly in front of the ... more
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Remote Easter Island braces for total solar eclipse
Hanga Roa, Chile (AFP) July 11, 2010Tourists and scientists poured onto remote and mysterious Easter Island Sunday to watch a rare total eclipse of the sun, a mixed blessing for the Pacific community. An estimated 4,000 tourists, scientists, photographers, filmmakers and journalists flocked to the remote Chilean outpost of only 160 square kilometers (60 square miles), doubling the population of the barren island that already s ... more Expedition To Study South Pacific Solar Eclipse 
Williamstown MA (SPX) Jul 09, 2010Professor Jay Pasachoff of Williams College's astronomy department is on Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean preparing to observe the July 11 total solar eclipse. The eclipse will be one of the least observed ever, since so much of the path is over ocean. Easter Island, 2,500 miles west of the Chilean South American mainland, is the only substantial land in the path, until the ... more Rainy forecast douses plans to view Easter Island eclipse
Santiago, Chile (AFP) July 8, 2010Easter Island will be overcast and drizzly Sunday, weather experts said - a disappointing forecast for thousands hoping to view what would be, if the weather cooperates, a spectacular solar eclipse. About 4,000 tourists have traveled to tiny Pacific ocean outpost to view Sunday's rare total eclipse of the sun, but Chile's meteorological office on Easter Island said dreary weather may ruin ... more Astronomers Capture A Rare Stellar Eclipse In Opening Scene Of Year-Long Show 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2010For the first time, a team of astronomers has imaged the eclipse of the star Epsilon Aurigae by its mysterious, less luminous companion star. Very high-resolution images, never before possible, have been published online today in the journal Nature Letters. Epsilon Aurigae has been known since 1821 as an eclipsing double star system, but astronomers have struggled for many decades trying ... more |
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Solar eclipse inspires awe -- and disappointment
Shanghai (AFP) July 22, 2009 Peering up through black protective glasses at an overcast sky, Glenn Evans let out an excited cry as the barely visible sun began to disappear completely behind the moon. "You can see it. It's already started!" Evans, a Shanghai-based cosmetics executive, called out to other eclipse-watchers. Evans was one of hordes of Shanghai residents and tourists who poured into the Chinese city's ... more China Aims To Record 40-Minute Image Of Solar Eclipse Corona 
Nanjing, China (XNA) Jul 22, 2009Chinese scientists are striving to capture a 40-minute sequence of images of the corona of a solar eclipse along its path across China on Wednesday in a bid to understand the sun's outer atmosphere. "We have set up 17 observer stations along the central line of the solar eclipse in China to capture the corona images," said Ji Haisheng, an astronomer with the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... more Indian air force planes to stalk eclipse
New Delhi (AFP) July 21, 2009India's air force will scramble a fighter jet and a transport plane filled with scientists to photograph and monitor Wednesday's total solar eclipse as it races across the country. The Indian scientists will take off from the Taj Mahal town of Agra on a Russian AN-32 transporter and follow the shadow of the eclipse northwest until the central town of Khajuraho, the air force said. ... more Ancient Eclipses In China 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2009Whenever we think of a country's contribution to astronomy, we first tend to consider its most ancient roots. With Chinese astronomy, those roots go back far longer than any other modern culture. Among the most ancient writings and 'oracle bones' uncovered through painstaking archeology, we see the legacy of the first sightings of eclipses, aurora, sunspots and the solar corona. In their ... more |
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