{"id":23145,"date":"2017-02-26T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23145"},"modified":"2017-03-03T23:35:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T23:35:16","slug":"goes-16-visible-images-of-a-solar-eclipse-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23145","title":{"rendered":"GOES-16: visible and true-color images of a solar eclipse shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/02\/170226_goes16_visible_Southern_Hemisphere_eclipse_shadow_zoom_2_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnaIl\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/02\/960x1280_AGOES16R_B2_G16_VIS_SHEM_ECLIPSE_ZOOM_V2_26FEB207_2017057_140610_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 ABI Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 ABI Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 &#8212; the first of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/\"><strong>GOES-R series<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI%20Fact%20Sheet%20Band%202.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images captured the Lunar Umbra (or solar eclipse shadow) of the &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; annular eclipse that occurred in the Southern Hemisphere on 26 February 2017. The dark eclipse shadow could be seen moving from west to east, beginning over the southern Pacific Ocean, passing over far southern Chile and Argentina, and finally moving over the southern Atlantic Ocean. GOES-16 will routinely scan the Full Disk every 15 minutes (the current GOES Full Disk scan interval is once every 3 hours), but in a special mode can scan the Full Disk every 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The path of the eclipse shadow (courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/annular-total-eclipse-february-26\"><strong>EarthSky.org<\/strong><\/a>) is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.es-static.us\/upl\/2017\/02\/SE2017Feb26A.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/en.es-static.us\/upl\/2017\/02\/SE2017Feb26A.png\" alt=\"Path of 26 February 2017 solar eclipse shadow [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"641\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Path of 26 February 2017 solar eclipse shadow [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>True-color GOES-16 Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images are shown below (courtesy of Kaba Bah, CIMSS).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/02\/2017_SH_solar_eclipse_shadow_truecolor_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/02\/OR_ABI_L2_CMIPF_G16_subset_s20170571321.10pct.CIMSS.jpg\" alt=\"GOES-16 true-color images [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 true-color images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Note: the GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing on-orbit testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 &#8212; the first of the GOES-R series &#8212; ABI visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images captured the Lunar Umbra (or solar eclipse shadow) of the &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; annular eclipse that occurred in the Southern Hemisphere on 26 February 2017. The dark eclipse shadow could be seen moving from west to east, beginning over the southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-16","category-goes-r","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23145","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=23145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23261,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23145\/revisions\/23261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}