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Falcon 900B Used To Capture Rare Annular Solar Eclipse

On November 3, a chartered Dassault Falcon 900B carrying 12 photographers and amateur astronomers was used to intercept an extremely short total solar eclipse with a claimed first-ever “perpendicular crossing” of the eclipse path. Flying at 44,000 feet and about 450 knots, the trijet intercepted the eclipse at both the precise time and location–about 600 miles from Bermuda over the Atlantic Ocean. (Ben Cooper/LaunchPhotography.com)

By Chad Trautvetter • Online Editor

November 12, 2013

In what the organizers claim is a first, an aircraft–in this case a chartered Dassault Falcon 900B carrying 12 photographers and amateur astronomers on November 3–was used to intercept an extremely short total solar eclipse with a “perpendicular crossing” of the eclipse path. While aircraft have previously been used to capture solar eclipses, they flew with the eclipse path and waited for the shadow to catch up with the airplane. “There was high risk for our flight in being a hair off in timing and missing totality, but we did it anyway,” noted photographer Ben Cooper.

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