Sky & Telescope - October 2021 - 60

OBSERVER'S LOG by Bob King
Flying into
ANNULARITY
Sky & Telescope's June solar-eclipse flight was an event worth losing sleep for.
I
wasn't going to miss this eclipse. That's why I asked the
friendly face at the hotel front desk to wake me at 1:30
a.m. I set my cell phone alarm for good measure and, as
backup, the room clock. The plan worked - I was on time
to line up at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport with 31
other eclipse chasers boarding a chartered Delta Airlines
Airbus. Our destination: a mid-air alignment with the Sun
and Moon over central Canada at sunrise.
We possessed the meteorological equivalent of a " get
out of jail free " card - a flight above the clouds to see the
June 10th annular solar eclipse. And since we had no plans
to land in Canada, our flight wasn't subject to the border
restrictions imposed by COVID-19 concerns.
Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope Senior Editor, took on the
task of arranging the flight back in July 2020 during the
worst of the pandemic. The night before takeoff, Kelly
briefed us on flight details, eclipse circumstances, and
to make sure everyone had a safe solar filter. Afterward
we had a chance to meet our fellow passengers and share
eclipse stories and preparations.
There's a reason eclipse flights are generally halffull
- everyone gets a window. During takeoff, we sat
in assigned seats to balance the plane. Closer to sunrise
passengers moved over to the sunny side to set up their
camera equipment.
60 OCTOBER 2021 * SKY & TELESCOPE
BULLSEYE Eliot Herman of Tucson, Arizona, recorded this sequence
of images before, during, and after annularity (left to right, respectively)
while aboard the Sky & Telescope Annular Eclipse Flight. He used a
Nikon D850 camera with a 300-mm lens and a 1.4× teleconverter.
The plan was to fly northeast towards southern Ontario.
Shortly before entering the path of annularity, the flight
plan called for a pivot northwest, so all onboard would face
northeast in anticipation of the rising Sun. Despite storms
over Lake Superior, strong headwinds, and an untimely
computer glitch that slightly delayed our progress, we
arrived on the viewing track in time for most of sunrise.
PATH TO ANNULARITY
This map traces the path
of the eclipse flight from
Minneapolis-St. Paul airport
over northwestern Wisconsin,
Michigan's Upper Peninsula,
and Lake Superior.
The plane then turned and
headed northwest across
southern Ontario. Passengers
witnessed mid-eclipse
about 87 km east of Lake
Nipigon, a large body of water
north of Lake Superior.
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