Pasachoff, Jay M., 2021/2022, “Totality From Above the Clouds,” Sky and Telescope, online and pending in print.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/total-solar-eclipse-reports-from-antarctica/
Theo Boris, Christian A. Lockwood, David Zimmerman (JM Pasachoff Antarctic Expedition), 2021 (Dec. 9), “A Total Eclipse of the Sun,” https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211209.html
cited in Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2021/12/04/in-photos-and-video-antarcticas-exclusive-eclipse-of-the-sun-attracts-intrepid-travelers-and-humpback-whales/?sh=305334b44730
Wall Street Journal: some photos from others on Antarctica:
https://www.wsj.com/story/a-total-solar-eclipse-as-seen-from-antarctica-e71f1988?page=1
Wall Street Journal pre-eclipse, citing eclipse traditions (such as my orange pants; enhanced version with additional photos available from me on request):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/total-solar-eclipse-chasers-travel-antarctica-11637793627?page=1
Pasachoff, Jay M., Christian A. Lockwood, David Sliski, Aristeidis Voulgaris, Glenn Schneider, Peter F. Knowlton, Anna S. Tosolini, Theo Boris, Muzhou Lu, Thanasis Economou, 2022, abstract 2240, 239th AAS meeting, “First Report on the December 4, 2021, Solar Eclipse Antarctic Expeditions,” Salt Lake City, January 2022.
We give a first report on results gathered on our three successful expeditions to the December 4, 2021, total solar eclipse whose totality passed over Antarctica and adjacent ocean. One of our groups was on a chartered LATAM Boeing 787 Dreamliner that flew eastward from Punta Arenas at 41,000 ft (a second 787 was 1000 feet lower), near the southernmost part of Chile, turning southwest for the totality run, the upper of two planes with paths plotted by Glenn Schneider to observe totality a few degrees above the horizon out the left-hand windows from near the sunrise point. Our group carried cameras with telephotos and 3 spectrographs from Voulgaris, and observed about 1 m 54 s of totality. A separately chartered airplane took four people including Boris, Lockwood, and equipment, to Union Glacier, on the Antarctic continent (Latitude -79.76, Longitude -82.85), using the services of ALE (Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions), the standard airplane servicer that is also responsible for opening the runway, which was not used in the previous Antarctic summer but that did provide a difficulty. In addition to astronomical equipment to image totality at an altitude of about 14° above the horizon, they sent back a livestream to NASA.gov and the NASA YouTube channel. Rojo, a professor of astronomy at the University of Chile, joined the official expedition carried by the Chilean Air Force to spend two weeks on Union Glacier, Antarctica, conducting that expedition’s only astronomical observations. He carried Celestron and Nikon telephotos and Nikon cameras from Williams College, with filters by Questar and Thousand Oaks Optical.
In addition, efforts by the AAS Eclipse Task Force’s Formal Education working group are on-going, in preparation for the annular 2023 and total 2024 solar eclipses. This working group aims to promote and coordinate networks and resources for meaningful student eclipse experiences and for building capacity in formal education (K-12 and Higher Ed) to address solar science and the eclipse.
JMP’s current research about eclipses is sponsored by grant AGS-1903500 of the Solar Terrestrial Program, Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division of the NSF, succeeding AGS-1602461 from the period of the 2017 eclipse. We thank Williams College for additional student expeditionary support from the Freeman Foote endowment. We thank Tim Todd of TEI Tours and Travel, Pleasant Hill, California, for his excellent travel arrangements.
WSJ-orangepants-withphotos-enhanced
https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/11_23_2021_pasachoff/
Preliminary Prediction of the December 4, 2021 eclipse corona at www.predsci.com/eclipse2021
December 4 charter flight package for Airbus 321 to view the eclipse from the air East of Punta Arenas, Chile
http://nicmosis.as.arizona.edu:8000/ECLIPSE_WEB/TSE2021/TSE2021WEB/EFLIGHT2021.
Xavier Jubier’s Google map (clickable; zoomable):
Fred Espenak’s map at http://EclipseWise.com
http://www.eclipsewise.com/oh/ec2021.html#SE2021Dec04T
http://www.eclipsewise.com/solar/SEdisk/2001-2100/SE2021Dec04T.gif
Jay Anderson: weather/cloudiness info: http://eclipsophile.com (see our new book, Peterson Field Guide to Weather (2021), at pasachoff.com)
Megamenu Social