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Antarctica • November 25, 2011

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Pasachoff Press Release
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Espenak/NASA map
Maps of the eclipse: http://www.eclipses.info
Maps of the eclipse: http://www.eclipse-maps.com
Another map of the eclipse

Pre-eclipse press release
European Meteosat weather satellite
MSNBC article
collection of eclipse photos from several observers

Sky and Telescope article


ftp link to coordinated space observations

Xavier Jublier (France) succeeded in observing an 87% eclipse from Union Glacier (79°46'40" S, 83°19'15" W, 782 m altitude),
about a thousand kilometers from the pole toward Patagonia http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/PSE_20111125_pg01.html

with position marked at http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/PSE_20111125_GoogleMapFull.html


Weather Satellite Animation
The same type of feeble effect of the presence of shadow is seen in METEOSAT-9 (0 deg.) image of 0600 GMT vs. its absence in 0700 GMT.
This is further west of METEOSAT-7 (IODC) shown by the other satellite images. See the links below:
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/RGB/NATURALCOLOR/ANTARCTIC/index.htm
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/IMAGERY/VIS006/BW/ANTARCTIC/index.htm



Contact

Professor Jay Pasachoff (Jay.M.Pasachoff@williams.edu)
Williams College--Hopkins Observatory
33 Lab Campus Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 597-2105; fax (413) 597-3200