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That inaugural, game-changing expedition – the first-ever tourism transit of the Northeast Passage – set Quark Expeditions on a course that would put them at the forefront of polar exploration. Quark have spent the last three decades taking travellers on polar expeditions to remote parts of the Arctic and Antarctic where no one else has set foot.
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Saros series 152 concludes its run of total solar eclipses on September 14th, 2490, and ends completely with a final shallow partial solar eclipse on August 20 th, 3049 AD.Lars Wikander and Mike McDowell, the cofounders of Quark Expeditions, took the first group of commercial travellers to the North Pole In 1991. Said 2003 eclipse was actually member 12 of the same solar saros series, 18 years ago. This particular series ‘just’ started back on July 26 th, 1805, and produced its very first total solar eclipse on November 2 nd 1967. This weekend’s eclipse is member 13 of 70 eclipses in relatively new solar eclipse saros series 152. David Levy once recounted in a talk of courting frostbite during the 2003 total solar eclipse over Antarctica while setting up his camera.
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Air Force flight line operations in subzero Alaska at Eielson Air Force Base outside of Fairbanks for years, and found the best cold weather working combination to be heavy outer gloves for insulation plus a light inner glove layer underneath, for quick fine motor work. NASA has a good eclipse safety page still up from the 2017 total solar eclipse.Īlso, if you happen to be on a secret-squirrel snowmobile expedition to totality and are reading this, be sure to dress warmly, even though it is headed into austral summer down under… cold temperatures plus wind can equal frostbite in short order, especially on fingertips fumbling to work photographic equipment.
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This means either projecting the Sun for viewing, using optical filters meant for solar observing, or using approved ISO 12312-2 glasses for eclipse viewing (beware of counterfeits!). Credit: Dave Dickinson.ĭon’t forget to practice proper eye safety during the partial phases of the eclipse. Partial eclipse-rise over the Vehicle Assembly Building along the Florida Space Coast from 2013. These are all very low to the horizon events transpiring at sunrise or sunset, making for a photogenic eclipse that you can capture along with foreground objects on the horizon. Overall, the partial eclipse also touches the edges of three continents, including the Falkland Islands (South America), South Africa, and Tasmania (Australia). Credit: Dave Dickinson/Stellarium.īut do not despair: though the path of totality is indeed remote, the entire continent of Antarctica sees partial phases of the eclipse. Maximum totality views from around the eclipse region Saturday. The ongoing worldwide pandemic has also clipped the travel wings of many an eclipse chaser over the past two years. Unfortunately, Quark Expeditions seems to have canceled plans to sail to totality, forcing many eclipse chasers headed to the departure point in Buenos Aires, Argentina to turn back. Ocean expeditions and charted airborne flights may intercept the eclipse. An animation of the December 4th eclipse.
The shadow then sweeps out over Antarctica, and departs the Earth over the South Pacific at 9:37 UT. Maximum eclipse occurs at 7:33 UT over the Weddell Sea, with a duration of 1 minute and 54 seconds. Totality starts at 7:00 UT as the 418 kilometer-wide umbra of the Moon touches down over the South Atlantic, just east of the Falkland Islands. Penumbral/partial phases for the eclipse run from 5:29 to 9:37 Universal Time (UT), at just over four hours overall. The only research station along the path is on windswept Signy Island and Orcadas Station in the far South Atlantic. The path for totality manages to very nearly miss every possible inhabited outpost on Earth. You almost couldn’t design a more remote eclipse.
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