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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse December 2020, Patagonia, Argentina
The total solar eclipse of 2020 December 14 started at sunrise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, fortuitously reached its maximum...
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Dec 1, 20206 min read
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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, July 2019, Bella Vista, Argentina
The centre of the umbra of the 2019 July 2 Total Solar Eclipse first touched the Earth’s surface at 18:02 UTC in the Pacific, north east...
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Jul 1, 20193 min read
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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, June 1991, Hawaii and Mexico
With a long duration eclipse in prospect and a choice of two attractive locations, what could possibly go wrong? This was our biggest...
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Jun 1, 20141 min read
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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, July 1990, Finland
This was always going to be a weather dependent eclipse with rapidly changing sunny gaps in large cumulous clouds. We flew in on a...
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Jan 1, 20141 min read
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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, March 1988, Sumatra and Philippines
There were several destination options for this eclipse and based on weather data we selected a site on Banka Island, off the Indonesian...
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Mar 1, 20131 min read
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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, June 1983, Java
Anticipating the likely weather conditions was quite an artform in those days, long before any sort of satellite aid. I spent some time...
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Jun 1, 20121 min read
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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, July 1981, Kazakhstan
Every eclipse has different logistic obstacles and the 1981 event had plenty. As the track ran through the Soviet Union even getting...
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Jul 1, 20111 min read
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Chasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, February 1980, Kenya
I had driven over the road from Mombasa to Malindi some twenty years earlier when Kenya was still a colony and the road had aged no...
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Feb 1, 20101 min read
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