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SLOOH to Livestream the Total Solar Eclipse from Indonesia with On-site Coverage

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SLOOH is sending Astronomer Paul Cox on a wild expedition to the remote countryside of Indonesia to globally livestream the great spectacle of a total solar eclipse, live on Slooh.com, on March 8th starting at 3:00 PM PST ¦ 6:00 PM EST ¦ 23:00 UTC and ending at 6:00 PM PST ¦ 9:00 PM EST ¦ 02:00 UTC. Cox will be accompanied by a team from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), and he will provide updates of his journey throughout the week on Slooh. In addition to multiple feeds from Indonesia capturing totality, Slooh will have live feeds from several other locations along the eclipse path. The precise location of Slooh’s expeditionary team is being withheld due to security concerns. ...

NASA to Provide Live Coverage, Interviews, and Social Media for March 8 Solar Eclipse

NASA, in partnership with the Exploratorium Science Center in San Francisco, will host activities around the March 8 total solar eclipse, including opportunities to talk with solar scientists and live coverage of the eclipse originating from Woleai island in Micronesia.

NASA will host a Facebook Q and A at 2 p.m. EST on Monday, March 7, with solar scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, solar scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will participate in a Reddit Ask Me Anything.

NASA Television will begin coverage at 8 p.m. on March 8. The period of total eclipse, called totality, will occur from 8:38 to 8:42 p.m. ...

NASA Eclipse Website

Amazing corona from today's solar eclipse! From Tidore Indonesia we had 3 minutes of a magnificent totality! I can't stop looking the large prominense right next to the Baileys Beads!

It seemed as if the prominence was competing the Baileys Beads for which it will be more spectacular!
Beautiful Corona structures during totality
A truly spectacular solar eclipse that many people had fun with. I was based in Tidore Indonesia and shared my experience with more than 100 locals that had no idea how to observe it so I had to explain by using body language!

By the way, it looks like the sun is still very active by the first results of spectra taken during the totality.

Never Forget The Shadow
Constantine Emmanouilidi
f/b: Infection Photography

Photo by Thanakrit Santikunaporn
Total Solar Eclipse
March, 9th 2016
Ternate, Indonesia
with H-Alpha filter

for more quality >> https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/14363679 ... df0f95b390

Photo by Thanakrit Santikunaporn
Series of Total Solar Eclipse
March, 9th 2016
Ternate, Indonesia
Technique: Set interval exposure from camera, shoot every 5 minute from beginning phenomena till the end. Every frames of Partial Eclipse using solar filter. Stack them together with Total Eclipse including foreground by Photoshop.

for more quality >> https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/14396101 ... ddb80d4cdd

There is an incredible photo of the eclipse on today's Optics Picture of the Day http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fza92.htm. If it's available for APOD and it isn't already in the APOD queue, it should be.

Eclipse Shadow bands on Cloud ~ The web is full of images of the March 9, 2016 total solar eclipse over Indonesia. But here, Muhammad Rayhan of the Jakarta Planetarium & Observatory has captured something rare. Look below the black sun. The cloud is covered with parallel diagonal bands. These are the fabled 'shadow bands' sometimes seen flickering over the ground at the beginning and end of totality. Here the bands are projected not on the ground but on a translucent layer of intervening cloud. To complete the scene, the pinpoint light of the sun shining along lunar valleys has produced some iridescence and even a fragmentary corona in the cloud droplets. Image ©Muhammad Rayhan

That picture looks strangely fake. Note that I'm not saying that it is; my brain just can't seem to accept those bands as shadows.

Sky conditions were excellent during the totality from Tidore Indonesia and some clouds right in the corner didn't stop the corona from being magnificent and well captured. Even the earthshine is very prominent in a single frame image.
I've also reworked the big prominence image to show the actual detail captured by the imaging system.
NeverForgetTheShadow
Constantine Emmanouilidi

Corona from the total solar eclipse
Copyright: Photography: Catalin Beldea/Stiinta & Tehnica Magazine
Processing: Alson Wong

Alson Wong wrote:Corona from the total solar eclipse
Copyright: Photography: Catalin Beldea/Stiinta & Tehnica Magazine
Processing: Alson Wong

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Beautiful!

Corona from the total solar eclipse
Copyright: Photography: Catalin Beldea / Stiinta & Tehnica Magazine
Processing: Alson Wong
This version was processed more aggressively to bring out more details in the corona.

conemmil wrote:Sky conditions were excellent during the totality from Tidore Indonesia and some clouds right in the corner didn't stop the corona from being magnificent and well captured. Even the earthshine is very prominent in a single frame image.

Click to view full size image

NeverForgetTheShadow
Constantine Emmanouilidi

I love that image, Constantine! The bluish color of the Earthshine is fantastic, the lunar markings are superb, the pink Ha edge encircling the Moon almost seems to pulsate, and the brilliantly white corona is like a silver setting of a particularly precious stone.

I guess I waxed just a little bit too poetic here, but I simply love your image!

Ann