{"id":14265,"date":"2013-11-03T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=14265"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:06:58","slug":"tracking-a-lunar-umbra-solar-eclipse-shadow-across-the-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/14265","title":{"rendered":"Tracking a Lunar Umbra (solar eclipse shadow) across the Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/11\/131103_meteosat10_vis_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Meteosat-10 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/11\/131103_MET10_VIS_SOLAR_ECLIPSE_SHADOW_05.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A rare &#8220;hybrid&#8221; solar eclipse occurred on 03 November 2013 (<a title=\"solar eclipse photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/106045\/hybrid-solar-eclipse-images-from-around-the-world-november-2-2013\/\"><strong>photos<\/strong><\/a>), which began over the western Atlantic Ocean as an annular eclipse and transitioned into a full total solar eclipse for observers along the narrow path of totality in the far eastern Atlantic and over parts of Africa (<a title=\"map of eclipse path\" href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SEplot\/SEplot2001\/SE2013Nov03H.GIF\"><strong>map of eclipse path<\/strong><\/a>). The Lunar Umbra <em>(or solar eclipse shadow)<\/em> could be seen tracking rapidly southeastward across the Atlantic Ocean on EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images from 10:45-14:30 UTC <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The dark solar eclipse shadow could also be seen near the edge of the Full Disk scan of the GOES-13 satellite at 11:45 UTC, just south and southwest of the Cape Verde Islands <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>. Since the current generation of GOES only perform a full disk scan once every 3 hours,\u00c2\u00a0 the eclipse shadow could not be followed in time as it was using the 15-minute interval images from Meteosat-10.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/11\/131103_1145z_goes13_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/11\/131103_1145z_goes13_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\" width=\"479\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the next-generation <a title=\"GOES-R\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/\"><strong>GOES-R<\/strong><\/a> series, a full disk scan will occur once every 5 minutes. As a part of the GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan for GOES-R (SRSOR) testing, full disk scans were performed every 30 minutes on <a title=\"14 September 2012 GOES-14 30-minute full disk scans\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11332\"><strong>14 September 2012<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare &#8220;hybrid&#8221; solar eclipse occurred on 03 November 2013 (photos), which began over the western Atlantic Ocean as an annular eclipse and transitioned into a full total solar eclipse for observers along the narrow path of totality in the far eastern Atlantic and over parts of Africa (map of eclipse path). The Lunar Umbra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,34,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-13","category-goes-r","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14269,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions\/14269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}