#Satellites Create Artificial #SolarEclipse

https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/satellites-create-artificial-solar-eclipse

"Today, the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the solar corona. The mission’s two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a suite of onboard positioning technologies, have succeeded in creating their first ‘artificial total solar eclipse’ in orbit."

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse

#ESA #Proba3 #Eclipses #SolarEclipse #Satellites

ESA Satellites Create First Artificial Total Solar Eclipse in Space https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/esa-satellites-create-first-artificial-total-solar-eclipse-in-space/ #europeanspaceagency #proba3mission #solareclipse #eclipse #science #proba3 #Space #space #News #esa #sun

Two European satellites mimic a total solar eclipse as scientists aim to study its corona.

The satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipse by flying in precise formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

Dubbed Proba-3, the €181 million mission has generated 10 successful solar eclipses so far.

ESA released the eclipse pictures at the Paris Air Show on Monday.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250616-two-european-satellites-mimic-a-total-solar-eclipse-as-scientists-aim-to-study-its-corona?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#ESA #Space #Science #Sun #SolarEclipse #Proba3 #Coronagraph

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse Via @esa

#eclipse #solareclipse #proba3

The best artificial Total #SolarEclipse ever, delivered by ESA's #Proba3 spacecraft duo of which one carries the telescope while the other plays Moon - this allows imaging the solar #corona closer to the photosphere than any other coronagraph: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse

Coronal spectra of the 2024 Total #SolarEclipse with the ALIMAS and UV-PAMIS spectrographs flown on a WB-57 plane - as explained in https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1645372 with the plane in question in https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14562/ - shown by Adalbert Ding at the SEC. 18/n

The perils of observing a Total #SolarEclipse from the stratosphere: how the Romanian 2012 flight over Australia - https://www.astrofoto.ro/wp/?p=880 - had ended; the tree had to be cut in the end ... for AUD 200. No plans to repeat that effort. 17/n

More slides about the 2028 Total #SolarEclipse from Terry Cuttle at the SEC - and about coming attractions down under. Relevant websites: https://eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/ and https://www.eclipse.aaq.org.au/ 16/n

No more Spain for the next Total #SolarEclipse in 2028: SEC slides by Terry Cuttle and Jay Anderson about the Australian track and weather stats. 15/n

Next Total #SolarEclipse - 2027 in Spain again and a lot of North Africa: some aspects highlighted by Jay Anderson at the SEC in Belgium. 14/n

O.k. four more slides by Eduard Masana at the Leuven SEC about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse in Spain, namely what the Comisión Nacional del Eclipse is preparing: see https://www.iaa.csic.es/page/comision-nacional-eclipse and https://eclipses.ign.es and https://eclipse-spain.es/index.php/en/ for relevant websites. And some Final Thoughts and Recommendations about the expected eclipse experience in Spain. 13/n

And yet more Masana slides about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - which largely hits a sparsely populated region of Spain. Which has a lot to offer besides the eclipse, of course. Also a helpful matrix comparing the five zones of the eclipse in Spain. 12/n

More Masana slides about the geography and road network of relevance for the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - beware of shadows and traffic. 11/n

Tons of valuable information about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse at the Belgian conference today, esp. about the preferred Spain: some slides by Jay Anderson - see https://eclipsophile.com/tse2026/ for his full analysis - and Eduard Masana. 10/n

O.k., more screencaps from Michael Zeiler's #SolarEclipse Conference talk: stills from animations of the umbra moving over Spain in 2026 and 2027, setting the stage for tomorrow when most of the sessions will deal with future eclipses and planning. This summer a new website, EclipseAtlas.com (not up yet) will collect all old and new eclipse maps material. 9/n

Yay, the German math and astronomy wizard Erhard Weigel - see https://bonnstern.wordpress.com/2022/06/02/auf-den-spuren-von-erhard-weigel/ for other achievements - is credited with the first-ever published #SolarEclipse map by Michael Zeiler during the final SEC talk, and it's already a pretty modern and clever one! 8/n - more tomorrow.

What a valid lab test report for #SolarEclipse glasses looks like - from an SEC talk by Richard Fienberg who also co-authored a scientific paper on this topic in 2021: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac013e 7/n

Hey, Jörg Schoppmeyer opened his talk at the #SolarEclipse Conference in Leuven on imaging annular eclipses without filters with one of my Australian pictures from 1999 (upper right): see https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/aus99/story.html for how they originated. Schoppmeyer's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtQrHdl5Og of the 2023 ASE actually found scientific use: https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_2.pdf#page=3 (once again confirming the larger solar diameter https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/114681336115327260 had determined by an entirely different technique). 6/n

Four teaser slides from the amazing talk by Nicolas Lefaudeux at the #SolarEclipse conference about his vast - professional - experience in imaging and image processing applied to the solar corona: see https://hdr-astrophotography.com/solar-eclipses/ for his results in high resolution (and hopefully the highly instructive talk will become available as well eventually). 5/n