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Summary: On July 11, 2010, the new Moon passed directlly in front of the sun, producing a solar eclipse of rare beauty across the South Pacific. The path of totality crossed the Cook islands, Easter island, the waters off Tahiti, and southern parts of Argentina and Chile. [full story] [animated eclipse maps]

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Fantastic moment on the feet of the Ahu NauNau Moais. Weather got clear the same morning of the clipse, fantastic and unreal !

Quick look composite of 5 frames from 2500 km east of Tahiti at 39,000 feet on a centerline intercept jet charter. More to come later on the website! Duration of totality 9min23sec (not a typo - shadow chasing!)

Taken from the South of Anaa Atoll on the Astro Expeditions tour. A small section from the main group set off on a pre-dawn convoy of 3 small but very powerful speedboats for a bone jarring 20 miles trip to the South of the remote Atoll where we enjoyed an extra 30 seconds of totality in stunning surroundings. Canon 40D, 24mm lens, 1/15th Sec.

Eclipse 2010 Composite A solar eclipse photo (gray and white) from the Williams College Expedition to Easter Island in the South Pacific (July 11, 2010) was embedded into an image of the Sun's outer corona taken by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) 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 can be monitored and studied. Further, the dark silhouette of the moon was covered with an image of the Sun taken in extreme ultraviolet light at about the same time by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The composite brings out the correlation of structures in the inner and outer corona. Credits: Williams College Eclipse Expedition -- Jay M. Pasachoff, Muzhou Lu, and Craig Malamut; SOHO’s LASCO image courtesy of NASA/ESA and Naval Research Laboratory; solar disk image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory; compositing by Steele Hill, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

80mm f/5 Refractor + x2 duplicator + Canon EOS 350D. SAROS Group 2010 Expedition. www.saros.org

more images: from Cesare Guaita-Gruppo Astronomico Tradatese on Rapa Nui (Easter island); from Steve Harvey of Easter Island; from Brad Templeton of Hao, French Polynesia

The total solar eclipse 11-July-2010 in Argentina was not easy-to-catch, because the total phase appeared only 1 degree above the horizon and above the usually-cloudy Andes. To increase my possibilities, I hiked to a hill 400 meters above the lake Lago Argentino. With luck in weather I catched the phenomenon just over the mountains. I put myself into the photo to get a human touch. There was quite a strong wind during the eclipse which made me wish I had a better tripod.

Celestron Refractor 600mm with 2x Converter + Canon EOS 40D

A small group of three astronomers traveled halfway around the globe to reach beautiful Mangaia. Here are the images we shot through the clouds.

Physics professor Patricia Reiff of Rice University witnessed the eclipse from the deck of the Aranui 3 cruise ship just off the coast of Tahiti. She sent these pictures directly from the ship using her iPhone.

The shadow of the Moon sweeping over Patagonia in southern Argentina plunges the steppe east of El Calafate into darkness just before sunset on 11 July 2010. The sharp delineation of the Moon's umbra in the sky stunned everyone. Pictures taken with compact camera at various zoom settings.

Solar Eclipse from the Argentine pampas. Images taken with a Canon Rebel XSi, using a telescope Willam Optics FLT 132 F/7.

Our group flew to this remote atoll (consisting of a coral reef surrounding a lagoon) about 550 miles east of Tahiti. The weather was perfect and the seeing was superb. The local people gave us a warm welcome with Polynesian dances. Photo details: Canon 7D with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, 400 ISO.

from Hikuero Atoll east of Tahiti. We were in and out of clo

Canon 450D Sigma 600mm catadioptric lens, composite image of 12 exposures from 1/500s to 2s Notice star delta geminorum on the left. Quite dynamic corona.

Solar Eclipse from Argentina´s pampas.

I took these images of the solar eclipse from Pehuajo, a small city 370 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires. It was a partial eclipse, with the moon covering 54% of solar diameter.

A panorama of the Total Solar Eclipse taken on board the Paul Gauguin. Part of the ship's crew is in the foreground watching the eclipse. Canon G10 in Panorama mode. Three images each at ISO 200, F/2.8 and 1/10 second.

11th July was my birthday and this was the second (and last) eclipse on my birthday in my lifetime. These images were taken from Hao Atoll,French Polynesia. I used my trusty vintage 1975 400mm telephoto with a Canon 300D. Images of the chromosphere just after 2nd contact, inner corona and prominences mid eclipse and the 3rd contact diamond ring. We had very thin cloud and a pesky thicker patch just at the end. Shadow bands were visible on the sand just after 3rd contact.

Spectacular eclipse!!!

A group of about 40 international travellers, including 14 Canadians, were at the airport on Hikueru atoll in the Tuamotu chain of atolls in French Polynesia. Unfortunately, cloud moved in at the wrong time (just at second contact) and obscured the Sun through totality. Had the eclipse occurred 5 minutes earlier we would have seen it. People further down the island in the village did see the eclipsed Sun in the clear -- the cloud was that low and local. The fish-eye shot shows the entire sky (most of it clear and with stars showing) at the moment of second contact diamond ring.

El Eclipse del domingo 11 de julio, visto como parcial desde Asunción, Paraguay.

Six separate exposures from 1/500 to 1/15 second were digitally combined to create the image of the corona. I used a Nikkor 300 mm f/4 lens with a Nikon D300 at ISO 200. The third contaact and Baily's Bead images were 1/8000 second exposures. The diamond ring exposure was 1/500 second. For the wide angle image I used a Nikon D70 with a 18-200 mm f/3.5-5.6 lens working at 18 mm and f/3.5, with a 1/4 second exposure at ISO 400.

After an accident that damaged my primary camera just 22 hours before the eclipse, I was forced to learn a backup camera and use it to shoot the eclipse. Canon Digital Rebel XTi, 18mm-270 Tamron lens at 18mm, 400 ISO, 1/6s at f/5. Diamond ring shot at 1/40 at f/5. All were hand he

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Знаменитые истуканы острова Пасхи веками встречают рассветы и провожают закаты. Но вот однажды, 11 июля 2010 года, этот нескончаемый цикл был прерван странным событием – темнотой посреди белого дня. Особое расположение Солнца, Луны и Земли отбросило лунную тень на крошечный остров в Тихом океане, площадь которого составляет 170 кв. км. В результате, гигантские моаи, как их называют аборигены, были вынуждены в разгар белого дня провести 5 минут 20 секунд в темноте.

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