A large and complex sunspot is emerging over the sun’s southeastern limb. Numbered 4048, the active region is crackling with M-class solar flares. At the moment, it appears to be a greater threat for X-flares than sunspot 4046, which did unleash a dramatic X1.1-flare on March 28th. Solar activity is increasing again! Solar flare alerts: SMS Text.
SOLAR ECLIPSE MIRAGE: Savvy photographers know the best time and place to catch a mirage: Early morning on the beach when temperature inversions over open water distort the shape of the rising sun. Joerg Schoppmeyer is a very savvy photographer. On March 29th, he positioned himself at Pointe Lebel (Baie-Comeau), Canada, to video record a mirage of a solar eclipse:
https://youtu.be/Okzsu27yslI?si=eh3ijMFKKwpRSfSd
“This was my 65th eclipse–a cold but very special one,” says Schoppmeyer, who traveled to Canada to watch the New Moon pass in front of the sun less than a degree above the St Lawrence River.
During Schoppmeyer’s video, about 85% of the sun was covered, turning the solar disk into a narrow crescent. Watch the video again. There are actually two crescents: one above the clouds and another upside down below the clouds. That upside down crescent is not a reflection from the ocean water. It’s an “omega mirage.”
This eclipse was widely observed from eastern Canada, Iceland, Greenland, and western Europe. If you have a photo from the eclipse zone, please submit it here.
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