{"id":20899,"date":"2016-03-09T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=20899"},"modified":"2016-03-10T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:39:21","slug":"solar-eclipse-shadow-as-seen-from-geostationary-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/20899","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse shadow as seen from geostationary satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/1750x2750_AHIM08_B1_NHS_animated_2016068_233000_86_2016069_043000_86_X.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/1750x2750_AHIM08_B1_NHS_2016069_015000.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 true-color images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"479\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 true-color images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>The shadow of the total solar eclipse of <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SEplot\/SEplot2001\/SE2016Mar09T.GIF\"><strong>09 March 2016<\/strong><\/a> was captured by a number of geostationary satellites, including JMA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.jma.go.jp\/mscweb\/en\/himawari89\/space_segment\/spsg_ahi.html\"><strong>Himawari-8<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above; <\/strong>also available as either a large 140 Mbyte<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160308-09_himawari8_truecolor_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\">animated GIF<\/a><\/strong>, or a YouTube video: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/ahi\/YouTube_AHI_Solar.html\">large<\/a><\/strong><\/em>)<em><strong> | <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/ahi\/YouTube_AHI_Solar2.html\">small<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> and KMA <a href=\"http:\/\/nmsc.kma.go.kr\/html\/homepage\/en\/chollian\/choll_info.do\"><strong>COMS-1<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>. The Himawari-8 true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images were created using the Simple Hybrid Contrast Stretch (SHCS) method by Yasuhiko Sumida, SSEC visiting scientist from JMA. <tt class=\"letterText\"><br \/>\n<\/tt><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160308-09_coms1_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160308-09_COMS1_VISIBLE_SOLAR_ECLIPSE_SHADOW_10.GIF\" alt=\"COMS-1 Visible (0.67 um) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">COMS-1 Visible (0.67 um) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Toward the end of the eclipse, the shadow was also seen with NOAA <a href=\"http:\/\/noaasis.noaa.gov\/NOAASIS\/ml\/genlsatl.html\"><strong>GOES-15<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> as it moved northwest and north of Hawai&#8217;i.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160309_goes15_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/960x1280_WESTL_B1_GOES15_VIS_ECLIPSE_2016069_030000_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 Visible (0.63 um) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 Visible (0.63 um) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>In addition, the eclipse shadow was captured with the Chinese satellites FY-2E and FY-2G <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160309_fy2e_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160309_fy2e_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\" alt=\"FY-2E Visible (0.73 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"481\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FY-2E Visible (0.73 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160309_fy2g_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160309_fy2g_visible_solar_eclipse_shadow_anim.gif\" alt=\"FY-2G Visible (0.73 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"481\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FY-2G Visible (0.73 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow of the total solar eclipse of 09 March 2016 was captured by a number of geostationary satellites, including JMA Himawari-8 (above; also available as either a large 140 Mbyte animated GIF, or a YouTube video: large) | small) and KMA COMS-1 (below). The Himawari-8 true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images were created using the Simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":20908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,66,67,43,62,45,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coms","category-fy-2e","category-fy-2g","category-goes-15","category-himawari-8","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20899","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=20899"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20927,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20899\/revisions\/20927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}