{"id":3184,"date":"2019-01-06T16:38:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T21:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/eclipse\/?page_id=3184"},"modified":"2019-02-01T18:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T23:21:34","slug":"2019-january-6-partial-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/eclipse\/2019-january-6-partial-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 January 6 (Partial Solar Eclipse)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partial Solar Eclipse on January 6, 2019-\u00a0in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reporting from Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
\nConditions:<\/strong>\u00a0Clear through the middle hour and forty minutes; clouds for the first half hour; some visibility through clouds and haze for much of the last half hour.<\/p>\n

First Contact:<\/strong> 8:43 am local time
\nMaximum Eclipse:<\/strong> 42% magnitude, 10:06 am local time (30% obscuration=areal coverage)
\nLast Contact:<\/strong> 11:36 am local time<\/p>\n

We were hosted at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan by Yoichiro Hanaoka and Eijero Hiei.\u00a0 \u00a0We observed mainly from the grounds of their solar flare telescope, which has only digital images.\u00a0 We also, soon after maximum eclipse, saw a projected image from their 20-cm outreach telescope elsewhere on the grounds, mingling there with many children and others.<\/p>\n

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Xavier Jubier\u00a0successfully saw 60% obscuration from a hilltop overlooking Tomtor, Siberia, and reports that the temperature was \u201355\u00b0C = -67\u00b0F.\u00a0In Siberia, he went to Oymyakon, which is a good thousand kilometers away east of Yakutsk in the mountains.\u00a0For the eclipse, he selected a hilltop with an unobstructed horizon and a nice view over the mountains, near Tomtor next to the Pole of Cold.<\/div>\n
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J\u00f6rg Schoppmeyer reported seeing the whole eclipse while observing from Harbin, China.\u00a0 too, He writes the Solar Eclipse Mailing List that it was clear and cold, with temperature about \u201320\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

Paul Maley reported success for the duration after the first 30 minutes from a small park 6 miles from Inchon, South Korea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Daniel Fischer from Germany, monitoring feeds, reported images online from Russia, China (Beijing) and Japan.<\/div>\n
We were hosted at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan by solar astronomers Yoichiro Hanaoka and Eijiro Hiei.\u00a0 \u00a0We observed mainly from the grounds of their Solar Flare Telescope, which has only digital images.\u00a0 We also, soon after maximum eclipse, saw a projected image from their 20-cm outreach telescope elsewhere on the grounds, mingling there with many children and others. The temperature was about 43\u00b0C (7\u00b0C).<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Map by\u00a0Michael Zeiler :<\/div>\n
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Photos by Eijiro Hiei, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan:<\/span><\/div>\n
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