TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN EXMOUTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN EXMOUTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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The SwRI-led Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project evaluated special cameras to measure the polarization of coronal light during the April 2023 total solar eclipse in Exmouth, Western Australia. In this image, the colors indicate the polarization or orientation of the light. The white features, called prominences, have no polarization.

 

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Southwest Research Institute/Citizen CATE 2024/Ritesh Patel/Dan Seaton

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