2020 Chile Total Solar Eclipse
The 2020 Chile Solar Eclipse Flight
In 2020, all of the eclipse tours were cancelled due to COVID. Then in November, while COVID had temporarily waned, Chile and Argentina briefly opened with restrictions to travelers. T.E.I. Tours, which specializes in small groups and eclipse flights organized a ground based eclipse expedition to Pucon, Chile. However, heavy clouds threatened to block the eclipse. To ensure seeing the eclipse, the group chartered two small business jets to get above the clouds and see 2m 40s of totality. YouTube video.
The group planned on observing the eclipse from Pucón, Chile, near the volcano Villarrica.
Empty beaches on the shore of Lake Villarrica.
Because of threatening clouds, the group chartered two Cessna Citation business jets.
The 2020 Total Solar Eclipse was high above the horizon, but visible in the curved windows.
The corona of the December 2020 Total Solar Eclipse out the Cessna Citation's window.
The eclipse travelers on one of the jets.
The second Cessna Citation taxiing back.