Photos and videos of the solar eclipse March 9, 2016

The day before yesterday there was a total solar eclipse, which could be observed in Indonesia, Micronesia, and some other Pacific islands. The maximum duration of the full phase was observed in the region of the Caroline Islands.



Surprisingly, our zealous editors bypassed this news. Under the cut, a small selection of photos and videos of this phenomenon.


Full phase photo taken in the indonesian city of Balikpapan. Posted by Arief R. Sandan:


NASA Live Broadcast Fragment from Woleai Atoll (Federated States of Micronesia):


Video accelerated by 30 times, with the capture of private phases:


An amateur video shot near the city of Palu (Indonesia). The author of the video, Sam Huang, shot not only the sky, but also the surrounding landscape and happy spectators plunging into the darkness. One of them even started dancing during the full phase :-)


And this video was shot on board an Alaska Airlines plane flying from Anchorage (Alaska) to Honolulu (Hawaii). The airline specifically adjusted the flight plan to please astronomy enthusiasts on board. It’s better to watch without sound, the emotions of American passengers behind the scenes hit over the edge :-)


Photo from the same flight # 870: To feel like a person flying half the world behind an eclipse and breaking off with the weather, open the following video in full screen. This is a 360-degree panorama, you can turn your head in different directions.





Landscape of Ternate Island (Indonesia) during an eclipse: A large prominence in a photograph of Fabrizio Melandri, taken in the city of Balikpapan (Indonesia) A view of an eclipse from space, on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory : An animation of the eclipse composed of images from the Japanese meteorological satellite Himawari 8 :











In Russia, the eclipse was unavailable for observation, with the exception of small private phases in the Far East. I was content to photograph the thin crescent of the young moon a day after the eclipse: