Partial North Pole eclipse (photo Bernt Olsen)

Solar eclipse at midnight

On June 1st the moon passed in front of the sun at midnight. You couldn’t see it unless you live in the far North.

Several photographers near or above the Arctic Circle captured the exquisite and rare beauty.

Bernt Olsen photographed the eclipse from one of the most northern communities in Norway,  Sommarøy, Tromsø.

“A rain shower threatened to spoil the show, but just before midnight the clouds parted and I got a fairly clear shot of the eclipse,” says Olsen. “I’m glad I did, because we won’t experience an eclipse like this again for 73 years.” (SpaceWeather.com)

Partial solar eclipse from Sommarøy, Tromsø, Norway (photo Brent Olson)

Partial solar eclipse from Sommarøy, Tromsø, Norway (photo Brent Olson)

More eclipse shots: from Kulkova Svetlana of Bratsk, Russia; from Travis Stagg of Fairbanks Alaska; from B.Art Braafhart of Sallatunturi, Finnish Lapland; from Thomas Hagen of Tromsø, Norway; from Johan Kero of Bergfors, Kiruna, Sweden; from Joerg Schoppmeyer of Akureyri, Iceland.

With story and photographs from SpaceWeather.