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Annular solar eclipse shadow

By Scott Bachmeier •

GOES-16 CIMSS Natural True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

10-minute Full Disk GOES-16 (GOES-East) CIMSS Natural True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse shadow as it progressed southeastward from the Pacific Northwest to Brazil on 14 October 2023.

GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm) images — in the native projection of the GOES-16 satellite (below) — provided another view of the eclipse shadow path.

GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

A staggered set of three Mesoscale Domain Sectors from GOES-18 (GOES-West) provided 1-minute imagery of the eclipse shadow progression (below).

1-minute GOES-18 Mesoscale Domain Sector images, displayed individually and superimposed upon 5-minute GOES-18/GOES-16 CONUS Sector images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

GOES-16 SUVI Fe171 images from the SSEC Geostationary Satellite Imagery site (below) showed the Moon’s silhouette as it passed in front of the Sun during the eclipse period.

GOES-16 SUVI Fe171 (171 Å) images [click to play animated GIF]

Categories: GOES-16, GOES-18, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images, Solar eclipse shadow, Space weather, SUVI