Corona from Svalbard Composed of 29 Eclipse Images (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Corona from Svalbard Composed of 29 Eclipse Images

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The international Solar Wind Sherpas team, led by Dr. Shadia Habbal of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy, braved Arctic weather to successfully observe the total solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 from Longyearbyen on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago east of northern Greenland. Their preliminary results are being presented at the Triennial Earth-Sun Summit in Indianapolis, IN. More: <a target="_blank"href="http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/2015solar_eclipse/">http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/2015solar_eclipse/</a>.

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Miloslav Druckm&uuml;ller, Shadia Habbal, Peter Aniol, and Pavel Starha. University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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