Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter and experienced stargazer who covers the night sky, astro-tourism, the northern lights and space exploration. He received the 2023 Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division and is the author of A Stargazing Program for Beginners. Writing for Forbes.
, seen by 50 million, just a few hundred dedicated eclipse chasers saw this one. It triggered clickbait articles with shock headlines like “Wednesday’s eclipse might be the worst ever,” the evidence being that not many people would see it. Just 175,000 lived within the path of this one, but that’s normal. It was April 8 that was the outlier.
Last week, many of us were on Easter Island to watch an annular solar eclipse — a “ring of fire” — which happens when a distant, smaller-looking moon crosses the sun’s center, but can’t cover all of it. The peak “ring” event lasted under six minutes. It was spell-binding. Not as impactful as a total solar eclipse, but incredibly beautiful. What I also got to do is to spend some time with some of the world’s most committed eclipse chasers.
Prominences are filaments of plasma and magnetic field extending from the sun, which right now — close to solar maximum — are a daily sight in H-alpha. “I was expecting a minute and a half or so for chromosphere thickness, but it was quite a bit earlier with that layer of prominences.” Poitevin’s latter analysis revealed that thanks to the prominences, for him, the partial eclipse began 4 minutes and 7 seconds before the moon began to cross the photosphere.
There was no belly dancing 14 years later, but unlike last time, she got to see the island’s incredibleand properly explored the island. “Arriving at the airport the day before this eclipse was surprisingly emotional — all the bad memories came flooding back,” she said.In my group of 59 people, I met wealthy surgeons and business owners. I met teachers. I met retired people on their first post-work trip.
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