In Russia, the eclipse was visible in full only in Yakutia, a remote and sparsely populated region that is closer to Alaska than to Moscow and is known also as the Sakha Republic. Becky Ferreira In Russia, the “ring of fire” interrupted the “white nights.” “I was especially amazed when the moon centered itself on the sun,” he said, adding “it was a perfect circle of darkness surrounded by the equally perfect ring of light from the sun.” He said it felt very special to see the eclipse from a place like Greenland. “Because they are in quite remote locations, we wanted to make sure they would have the material to observe it,” said Julie Bolduc-Duval, executive director of Discover the Universe. Mike Reid, public outreach coordinator for the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, said there was a silver lining to such restrictions: The pandemic prompted the institute and colleagues at Discover the Universe, an astronomy training program based in Quebec, to ship 20,000 eclipse viewers to people in and around the eclipse’s path, including in Nunavut, a Canadian territory whose population is primarily Inuit. “Once we knew it was finished, we all stood up and we’re just high-fiving each other. “We’re still kind of flying a little bit high,” said Bill Montague, the club’s president. In North Bay, Ontario, east of Sudbury, the local astronomy club heeded the Covid restrictions and kept their gathering along Lake Bernard small. Covid-19 restrictions made that even more difficult, and large groups were not advised to travel and gather in Ontario and Québec. Getting to remote locations on the path of the full annular eclipse in Canada would have been challenging in normal times. For sure,” said Colin Durocher, a member of the local chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. But that didn’t make the experience any less special. Sudbury, a town in Ontario north of Lake Huron, was not in the path of annularity, and the sun there was about 85 percent obscured. He kept his eyes glued to his camera screen for the entire eclipse, pausing only once to give two eclipse glasses to a pair of people he noticed watching the sky through their fingers. He said the sky seemed to make the birds go berserk, flying wildly across the sky. Kentrianakis, who was too excited to sleep the night before. “It was brilliant, like a molten lava caldron above the deep blue ripply waves,” said Mr. There he saw the two horns of the eclipse rise above Lake Ontario like a double sunrise. Mike Kentrianakis, a lifelong eclipse chaser, watched the eclipse in Greece, N.Y. While some went vertical in Manhattan, others left the city in the hopes of getting a better view. When the red horns appeared in the sky, some of her fellow eclipse-watchers yelled in wonder and excitement. Troche, who lives in Elmhurst, Queens, her group caught the best part of the eclipse: the devil’s horns effect.
“Then the oohs and ahhs turned into ‘Aww, mans,” she said.īut in the opinion of Ms. In the Summit One Vanderbilt observatory in Midtown, nearly 1,400 feet up, Katherine Troche of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York and some friends watched the first 20 minutes of the eclipse before a thick fleet of clouds overtook the sky. “Everybody was gasping and it was absolutely magical.” “You could hear the entire audience react at the first viewing of the sun,” said Jean-Yves Ghazi, president of the Empire State Building Observatory.
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Outside of the path, some viewers experience a partial solar eclipse, like in metropolitan New York where the sun was about 73 percent obscured shortly after dawn.Įveryone’s eyes were trained on a patch of horizon between two other iconic skyscrapers - the MetLife Building and the Chrysler Building.įinally, the sun rose and the eclipse was visible - if a little hazily - through the cloud cover. Its course then headed south before ending in parts of the Russian Far East. It started after sunrise north of Lake Superior and began crossing remote regions of Canada, on its way into Greenland and the Arctic Ocean before going over the North Pole. This was an eclipse chaser’s eclipse, and not an easy one to casually see in its complete wonder. The result this morning was an annular solar eclipse.ĭuring such an eclipse, the black silhouette of the moon - too far from Earth to completely cover the sun - will be surrounded by a thin ring of our home star’s surface, or photosphere. The cosmos will do that for you from time to time as the ceaseless wanderings of our planet, the sun and moon bring them into line like billiard balls on a velvet space table. Thursday morning a few lucky or intrepid humans scattered from Siberia to Northern Canada got the chance to see the old familiar sun mostly blotted out from the sky.
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