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See it! Partial solar eclipse

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February 16, 2018
Partial solar eclipse of February 15, 2018 via Patricio Leon in Santiago, Chile. He wrote: “Clear sky, no clouds and a fantastic view using welder #14 as eye protection. Definitively there are no ‘little’ eclipses.” Canon SX60-HS 247 mm 1/400s f6/5 ISO100 solar filter.

We haven’t received many photos so far of Thursday’s eclipse of the sun; we don’t have many readers in South America. But here are a couple of beauties. The eclipse was a relatively shallow partial and was visible in the late afternoon on February 15, 2018. The farther south you live in South America, the deeper the partial solar eclipse. The sun was low in the west at eclipse time. A map below shows how much eclipse, and where it was seen.

Partial solar eclipse of February 15, 2018 via Cesar Daniel Cano in Unquillo, a city in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. Sony DSC-300.
Map showing varying degrees of eclipse obscuration via Fernado de Gorocica.

Bottom line: Photos of the February 15, 2018 partial solar eclipse.

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Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. In 2020, she was the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.

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