In an achievement that defines traditional knowledge among astronomers, a trio of the Eclips Chaser has captured what experts have confirmed that there is the first documented observation of solar corona during a partial solar eclipse.
Remarkable images taken from Cubek, Canada during March 29, 2025 – partial solar eclipse – reveal the outer environment of the Sun – a feature that usually appears during the brief moments of totality during the total solar eclipse.
“Korona is often occupied during partial stages of the total and total eclipses, but no one tried to catch it during a partial eclipse,” Mike cantriankisAn eclipse chaser and astronomy from New York City. Kentriankis, an experienced of 29 solar eclipses and “Oh my God!” Known as Man for him Viral Alaska Airlines Video In 2016 (plus Drug addiction remix version), Observed the eclipse during sunrise Lesline in Les EcouminsQuebec, north side of the St. Lawrence River, with fellow eclipse Cheer Kevin Wood.
Tributing to the temperature of 14 ° F Fahrenheit (minus -10 ° C), they occupy the internal corona silhouette moon.
“This is actually an interesting observation that can be repeated in the future,” said Matte penA solar physicist and assistant assistant professor at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale who has studied Corona extensively. “This is something that can be used to study Corona in a new way.”
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Where and when the corona was caught
The location was not temporary. He shot a video of Suraj rising at EDT at 6:22 pm, while it was already 87% accepted, including astronomy apps – including – including – Peakfinder And photopil – to ensure that they will see something very unusual. But this was not the corona they were looking for. Rather, they wanted to snap two ‘horn’ of the sun that appeared on the horizon on each side of the silhouette of the moon.
“I call them solar headlights – it was as if a great car came out of there; It was unprecedented,” Kentriankis said, who later posted a video, initially showed just this unique “double sunrise” effect.
Then, he saw something unpredictable in his shots: scars of solar corona. It was also uploaded, and then Processed color And Ekranga version. Another photographer who stopped from his place, Jason Kurt, later posted the pictures Faint solar corona on Instagram And A video of sunrise on youtubeAs painted NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day”“On 1 April.
Why corona looks like a ring
Someone else who took the dark part of the moon against the light of solar corona captured the silhouette. To be clear, it was a photographic corona; Nobody saw it with their own eyes.
The impression of a ring around the lunar limb originates from a contrast in the brightness. “Near the surface of the sun, in low corona, it is very bright, and you can see that during the eclipse – it is equal to the shine of the full moon,” the pen said. “But as you go away just a solar diameter, it falls into intensity with a factor of 100 or 300, so the corona has a lot of intensity gradients.”
Interpretation of corona
Until some time ago, astronomers and eclipse chasers admitted that solar corona could only be seen during the overall total phase of the total solar eclipse, when the moon completely blocks the sun’s bright disc, or photofare.
“Corona is one million times faint than everyday sun that we see in the sky,” Dan SeatanA solar physicist at the South -West Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who specializes in coronal comments.
This extreme difference in brightness between Korona and photofare has made the observation of Corona unlikely to be historically impossible. Even during the partial stages of the total eclipse, the remaining sliver of the sun’s disc is still bright to overwhelm the unconscious corona.
Importance of light scattering
We do not look at Corona during the day because due to the shattering effect of the reale. The seat said, “The light from the sun is very bright in the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is very bright than the corona, so it is not just visible.”
Why this sky is blue and why sunrise and sunset look red. Penn said, “The disintegration in the Earth’s atmosphere becomes much bright at every place on the planet than the corona,” the pen said. “So the light reflected in atmospheric dust becomes scattered in your eyes.”
However, Penn said, the overall intensity of that light not only overwhelms the corona, but the signal also causes ups and downs due to the noise. “As long as you are not really on a really high altitude site with a corerongraph telescope, which takes care of and controls the scattered light scattered very carefully, you are not going to see the corona at all from the ground, except that, of course, during the total solar eclipse,” the pen explained.
So, why did the corona appear? “If too much dust and disintegration, it not only spreads light from the solar region, but it also blocks light that will come from an object like the moon – or corona,” the pen said. “They had less scattered lights, and the transmission was quite high.”
It was mostly about space and time. “They determine whether the photofare is visible or not, and whether they have got a chance to see Corona without photofare,” said Penn.
The possibility of making this unprecedented observation possible was an ideal convergence of conditions on the St. Lawrence River. “Above this large body of water, the air is still very clean and very clean – not too much dust,” the seat said. “This was the best atmospheric position you can do.”
The depth of the eclipse – about 88% in the form of sun – was also important. “It reduces the shadow still blacks the sky – not almost as much as during the total eclipse, but it is still reducing the glow of the sky with a factor of 10,” the seat said.
By positioning itself so accurately, Kentriankis effectively used the Earth as a second manogat disk, blocking the most bright part of the sun and allowed only the corona to appear above the horizon. There were also some clouds in the distance, which may be sufficiently shared to the sky to allow corona to appear for 20 seconds after the appearance of “car headlights” at the moment of sunrise.
The time of this eclipse was a coincidence with the peak of the 11-year activity cycle of solar maximum-sun-which probably provides an additional benefit. “We are currently at the maximum,” the seat said. “So corona solar is brighter than minimum, and it is more distributed around the sun, so there is more corona to look.” There was a slightly big goal to catch.
Take a shot
This achievement was carefully planned in the heart. “I was looking at the map, and I said, ‘Wait a minute; the sun is rising in the north -east, and the eclipse is happening in the Northeast,” Kentriankis said. “And I thought,” if the sun is receiving, and the sun is covered 88%, it means that the bright part of the sun is below the horizon – and the corona is above the horizon! ” ,
This rapid decrease in glitter means that with the right circumstances, accurate exposure settings and equipment are required to capture the corona. Kentriankis used a minor gear-a canon M100 mirrorless camera with 15-200 mm lens. Kentriankis had to do a lot of brackets, taking a lot of shots using many different exposures.
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He said, “I did not know what I was going to get; I did not know if I was going to get anything.”
Where this partial eclipse was total
As Kentriankis and others were shooting for a partially assumed sunrise, a total solar eclipse was running over his head. When there is a deep partial eclipse on the Earth, the total solar eclipse should be just above it. After all, the Moon is always estimating a shadow in space – called astronomer a boil cone. This only occurs when the Earth runs through the shadow that any kind of eclipse can occur.
As Mariaus crukerA astronomer in Astro-Jio-GIS who observes a distant solar eclipses (including 8 April 2024, eclipse Spain), A total solar eclipse was visible above 315 miles (507 km) above the lace ascoumin – just above the orbital height of the international space station.
Views of solar corona from the Earth should not have been possible. Kentriankis said, “I went twice, as far as Umbra was above my head – 675 miles (1,086 km) the moon, the earth’s horizon and a way to see a ‘totality’ simultaneously by the clouds,” Kentriankis said.
The eclipse comes in families called Saroses, each member is separated for 18 years, 11 days and 8 hours. Each saros begins as a slight partial eclipse and, in many centuries, can become a total eclipse. March 29 was in eclipse Saros 149The next member of which is a total solar eclipse for Russia’s Doodle Peninsula on 9 April 2043.
This photographic success can present new challenges and opportunities for Korona’s comments during future partial eclipses. Capturing one of the most elusive characteristics of the Sun is obliged to motivate others to pursue partial eclipses, especially at sunrise or sunset, the seat said.
“I honestly hopes that the goods that Mike has done is going to happen, about which others will get excited and will probably try to improve,” the seat said. “Common people who are not professional astronomers create some opportunities to see which is rare, these are really a way to confuse the public with rare astronomical events.”
On October 14, 2023, Kundalakar was the lead writer of a paper describing the observation of Corona in the polarized light during the solar eclipse. “We also published plans to print 3D prints a corongraph that anyone can go to their own construction and any partial eclipse and give it an attempt,” said Seatan.
When is the next partial solar eclipse?
Eclipse Chaser who wants to try this achievement will have to go to a big length. Next time it will be possible to observe a partially received sunrise. On September 21, 2025, when A 72% eclipse will increase the sun – But this will be a view from the Southern Cross Subglassial Highlands in Antarctica. After that, there will be a chance to see 70% assumed sunrise From Western Canada on 14 January 2029.
Hoop of solar corona – one of the most beautiful and mysterious events of nature – a reminder during a partial eclipse is still discovered discoveries, and to be scientific campaigns and adventures. For Kentriankis, the eclipse is all about the excitement of the campaign and the thrill of the chase.
“Most people reject only partial eclipses,” he said. “But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get corona – and I did so! It has opened the door of new dreams and challenges.”
