Eclipse images from 16 February 1980 Palem, India
and 3 November 1994 Putre, Chile.
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The 1980 eclipse occurred near solar maximum, and the 1994 eclipse near solar minimum. It is therefor very interesting to compare images from these two times as the contrast in complexity of solar coronal structure is quite apparent.
Eclipse image from 16 February 1980 Palem, India ( TIFF ) ( postscript )
The total solar eclipse of 16 February 1980, photographed at Palem, India, by a research team from the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, and Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. Members of the team were John L. Streete and Leon B. Lacey. The expedition was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
This photograph of the solar corona was taken with a camera developed by Gordon A. Newkirk, Jr. This specialized instrument photographs the corona in red light -- 6400A -- through a radially graded filter that suppresses the bright inner corona in order to show the much fainter streamers of the outer corona in the same photograph.
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Eclipse image from 3 November 1994 Putre, Chile ( TIFF ) ( postscript )
The total solar eclipse of 4 November 1994, photographed at Putre, Chile, by a research team from the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. Members of the team were Greg Card, David Elmore, Alice Lecinski, Kim Streander and Dick White. The expedition was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
This photograph of the solar corona was taken with a camera developed by Gordon A. Newkirk, Jr. This specialized instrument photographs the corona in red light -- 6400A -- through a radially graded filter that suppresses the bright inner corona in order to show the much fainter streamers of the outer corona in the same photograph.
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