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The April 8, 2005, Eclipse White-Light Corona

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The hybrid solar eclipse of April 8, 2005, provided a good opportunity to observe the white-light solar corona, even though the eclipse lasted just 30 seconds and could be seen only from ships in the Pacific Ocean. During the eclipse, we detected a unique ‘cloud’ of particles in the white-light corona above the west limb ≈260°–270°. We compare this feature with EUV images from SOHO. The feature’s density and temperature seem comparable to a coronal condensation, and, like a coronal condensation, it is connected to the emergence of material from the solar surface without a flare. However, the morphology of the feature shows clear differences from a classical coronal condensation.

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  1. Williams College-Hopkins Observatory, Williamstown, MA, 01267-2565, U.S.A.

    Jay M. Pasachoff & Shelby B. Kimmel

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Brno University of Technology, 616 69, Brno, Czech Republic

    Miloslav Druckmüller

  3. Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 05960, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia

    Vojtech Rušin & Metod Saniga

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Pasachoff, J.M., Kimmel, S.B., Druckmüller, M. et al. The April 8, 2005, Eclipse White-Light Corona. Sol Phys 238, 261–270 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-006-0176-4

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