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02 July 2019 Total Solar Eclipse Images

Sunset during the end of the eclipse by Instagram user Wijaya Sukwanto. All rights reserved. Imaged through filtered Tele Vue-76 APO scope with Powermate image amplifier.

This past July’s Total Solar Eclipse was a southern hemisphere event with most of the path over the open waters of the Pacific. Starting east of New Zealand, the eclipse path made continental landfall in Chile and crossed over some major astronomical facilities in the Elqui Valley before entering Argentina. With the Sun setting and close to the horizon the shadow path crossed Argentina in just 3-minutes. The centerline just missed the capital city of Buenos Aires.  

Solar Eclipse maps and data courtesy of Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus, “Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000” (NASA/TP-2008-214170). Green lines denote limits of visibility. Key to Solar Eclipse Figures

I’m Ready by Instagram user Wijaya Sukwanto. All rights reserved. Wijaya Sukwanto poses with his eclipse imaging gear that includes a white light filtered Tele Vue-76 APO scope with Tele Vue Sol Searcher and Tele Vue Powermate image amplifier.

On July 2, 2019, Wijaya Sukwanto, from Indonesia,  was set up near the eclipse centerline, in Villaseca, Coquimbo, Chile  His dual-scope setup included a Thousand Oaks filtered Tele Vue- 76 equipped with a Tele Vue Sol Searcher, and Tele Vue 3.5″ extension tube to handle the Tele Vue  2x & 4x Powermates he was using to image through a Canon EOS 60 DSLR.

The diamond ring effect before 2nd Contact by Instagram user Wijaya Sukwanto. All rights reserved. Imaged through Tele Vue-76 APO scope with Powermate image amplifier.
Bailey beads and prominences just before 2nd Contact by Instagram user Wijaya Sukwanto. All rights reserved. Imaged through Tele Vue-76 APO scope with Powermate image amplifier.
Maximum solar eclipse in single frame by Instagram user Wijaya Sukwanto. All rights reserved. Imaged through Tele Vue-76 APO scope with Powermate image amplifier.
Bailey beads and prominences during 3rd Contact by Instagram user Wijaya Sukwanto. All rights reserved. Imaged through Tele Vue-76 APO scope with Powermate image amplifier.

It was his 3rd eclipse experience. He wrote us,”This time, the eclipse looks larger and very detailed. The corona color was bit yellowish because it was close to sunset. Overall, this is one of the best of all.”

Total Solar Eclipse in Peralillo, Coquimbo, Chile by Instagram user Pekka Rautajoki. All rights reserved. These sketches from the 2019 Total Solar Eclipse in Chile are mirror images. Top-bottom on left: pre-eclipse chromosphere sketch through Coronado MaxScope in Hydrogen-alpha light at 33x. Photosphere during partial eclipse (around 11:40 UTC) with TeleVue-85 refractor using white light filter. Back to the solar chromosphere and the final moments of the partial phase at 13:40 UTC, as the Sun was already setting behind the mountain ridge. Right-image: Beautiful corona stretching away from the eclipsed Sun with red prominences along the limb made with TeleVue-85 at 23x without filter.

Also in Coquimbo, Pekka Rautajoki from Finland was in the town of Peralillo to sketch the eclipse. He told us that the totality sketch, made by viewing through an unfiltered TeleVue-85 at 23x, was done “rather quickly” during the short 2’ 27” of totality that began at 12:38:36 UTC. On his Instagram account he says he “also observed clear shadow bands both before and after totality, the first diamond ring, and Sirius and Venus during totality. A magical experience!”
 
Did you observe or image the eclipse with Tele Vue gear? We’ll like your social media post on that if you tag it:
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