On Monday December 14, a total solar eclipse, the last eclipse of 2020, was visible from parts of Chile and Argentina. Weather permitting, some locations in South America, south-west Africa, and Antarctica saw the partial phase of this eclipse, as did the instruments onboard PROBA2.
The PROBA2 team is planning a special observation campaign in collaboration with the 
The PROBA2 team continuously works on improving the LYRA and SWAP data: the calibration routines for both instruments are updated regularly, and the latest version is always available, for example through 
On December 26, 2019 an annular solar eclipse took place. The eclipse path ran over multiple countries including parts of India, Indonesia and Malaysia and many nearby countries could also see a partial eclipse. This eclipse was not visible from Belgium, but we were able to observe it as a partial solar eclipse with the Belgian PROBA2 satellite. The satellite orbits the Earth so quickly that it was able to observe the eclipse more than once before the Moon had completely traversed the solar disk.
The PROBA2 PI-team welcomes research proposals for the ninth round of its Guest Investigator program for research based on SWAP and LYRA data analysis by scientists outside the SWAP and LYRA PI-teams. We encourage in particular early-career post-docs and PhD students to apply, although more senior guest investigators' proposals are also welcome.
