Photo of the Week: A (sort of) solar eclipse in Motueka

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Photo of the Week: A (sort of) solar eclipse in Motueka

23/08/2017 1:21am

> From the WeatherWatch archives

While the world was focused on the historic total solar eclipse from coast to coast in the United States this week someone in New Zealand captured a great photo of the sun setting behind Mt Campbell.

To be fair the eclipse in the US was caused by the moon squarely crossing in front of the sun – in this case it’s simply the sun setting behind the radio/TV tower located on Mt Campbell, Motueka in the Upper South Island.

Grant Henley took this awesome photo and uploaded it directly to WeatherWatch.co.nz (thanks Grant!).

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“Sun setting behind Mt Campbell about 10km inland from Motueka township. Used special sun filter to take photo” wrote Grant Heney. The photo was taken 19th Aug, 2017.