Totally Awesome Lunar and Solar Eclipses
These wonderful images were brought to you in part by skywatchers around the world.
Eclipse Over The Great Wall of China
On August 1, 2008 you were able to see the Moon eclipsing the Sun from the Great Wall of China. In this image the moon is completely blocking the sun, revealing a brilliant Solar Corona. As the eclipse briefly darkened the skies you can see The Great Wall’s Jiayuguan Fort silhouetted in the foreground. Even though you can see the Moon from the Great Wall, despite popular belief you can’t see the Great Wall from the Moon.
Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
In 2003 an astronomical event never witnessed by human eyes before occured. The Sun, the Moon, and “The Photographer” all lined up in this perfectly calculated event. The view of this total solar eclipse from the bottom the world is absolutely, unbelievably breathtaking. The flares of the Sun’s crown seem devine in nature. Only a handful of us will be fortunate enough to ever witness this firsthand.
A Total Lunar Eclipse Over North Carolina, USA
A total lunar eclipse takes place when the Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon. In 2003 this occured over the North American skies. This picture from North Carolina creates a time-lapse effect that demonstrates how the moon gets engulfed by the Earth’s shadow.
Eclipse With Lighthouse
The Moon displayed this color-change effect in 2007 over the skies of Cape Cod, Massachusettes, during a total lunar eclipse. The Highland Lighthouse (aka The Cape Cod Lighthouse), in this picture gives it a serene yet strangely eerie feeling. A bright planet is also visible to the left of the Moon.
Eclipsed Moon and Stars
This is another intense photo of a dark red Moon during a lunar eclipse. Imagine reeling in this bad boy for a pretty lady on your first date. This one though, is just a composite of two exposures. One of short exposure to highlight the Moon, and another of long exposure to trap the stars in the background.
Solar Eclipse From The Moon
I couldn’t let this article just fade out, so I saved this brilliant spectacle for last. As the people of Africa, Europe, and Western Asia were viewing a stunning lunar eclipse in their skies, anyone that would have been lucky enough to be kickin’ back on the near side of the Moon would have seen this solar eclipse. You can see the Sun’s crown through Earth’s dusty atmosphere as it moves between the Sun and the Moon.
I can’t remember ever witnessing a solar or lunar eclipse nearly as amazing as the one’s shown here. Therefore I’d like to thank the diligent skywatchers who point there cameras to the heaven’s, in hopes of capturing wonderful stellar events for us to marvel at.
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23 Responses to “Totally Awesome Lunar and Solar Eclipses”
On October 12, 2008 at 8:24 am
Wonderful accounting of this marvelous sight. WEll done!
On October 12, 2008 at 9:12 am
Beautiful pictures. Facinating article.
Take Care,
Kiki Stamatiou (Joanna Maharis)
On October 12, 2008 at 10:19 am
the pictures are amazing and awesome. thanks for sharing.
On October 12, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Fantastic images of awesome astronomical events. Nice write-up too, thanks.
On October 12, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Love this article. Well written and the pictures were fantastic.
On October 13, 2008 at 7:09 am
These pictures are geat! Love the beauty within them and the facts presented through your words. Michael
On November 16, 2008 at 8:07 am
Photos are great, spelling is not devine [sic]
On November 16, 2008 at 8:18 am
quite pleasing to see the wonderful photos
On November 16, 2008 at 2:41 pm
just beautiful thanks for sharing
On November 16, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Unlike the other composite images (”Eclipsed Moon and Stars”, “A Total Lunar Eclipse Over North Carolina, USA”, and “Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse”) derived from multiple exposures of an actual event, the last one is a manipulation of the very famous and widely used image of the earth taken from Apollo 17, on December 7, 1972, and not an actual eclipse.
Source: http://lisar.larc.nasa.gov/UTILS/info.cgi?id=EL-1996-00155
On November 16, 2008 at 10:35 pm
omg photoshop u can tell becos the moon is white in real life not red
On November 20, 2008 at 9:53 am
some of them look shopped
On November 24, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Lovely pictures… but I hate to point out that the “Earth Eclipse” will not be visible from the moon, as show in the last image.
The relative sizes of the moon compared to the earth is much smaller… or in other words, the earth is much larger. So a person standing on the moon looking at an eclipse by the earth would not see “the suns crown” as it is described. The sun would look much smaller than the earth and would therefore look more like moving behind it like a setting sun and the rise on the other side some time later.
If you should see an eclipse like in the image you would need to move further out than the moon sitting in a spaceship looking back on the earth.
Regards, Bjarne
http://www.rednebula.com
On November 25, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Jeff Colson the response to your comment in my name was not written by me. I appreciate all comments to my postings no matter what they may be, and be assured that I would never disrespect you in that way for your opinion, or misconceptions.
On November 27, 2008 at 2:38 am
Bjarne is so right. But also I recognize the photo of the Earth as a shot form one of the Apollo missions.
Someone was bound to pick up on that. The cloud at the tip of Africa is highly recognizable. Fun stuff anyway.
On November 27, 2008 at 5:51 am
wow, great shopped photos asswipe.
On November 27, 2008 at 5:53 am
The one from the antarctic and the one from the moon are the fakest, most shopped photoes in internet history.
But thanks for trying!
On November 28, 2008 at 7:00 am
Actually asswipe…the one from Antarctic is not a fake. Please refer to to this nasa website for details and links:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080504.html
And the one of the eclipsed earth is fake. But it wasn’t meant to be passed as real. Please see this nasa website for details and further links:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070302.html
On November 28, 2008 at 9:53 am
Whoa! Nice pictures. Nice!
On November 28, 2008 at 1:25 pm
In the last picture, if it was a solar eclipse, the moon would be between the earth and the sun. But in the picture, the earth is between the sun and the moon. So it would have to be a /lunar/ eclipse, not solar, right?
On November 28, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Actually, the last image, if it were real, would be a solar because it is the sun (hence solar), which is being eclipsed, just in this case the Earth is the eclipsing body. This happens once every lunar cycle just before the new moon.
And anyway how could one be looking at the moon eclipsing the sun if they were on the moon? If you were on the moon the next best thing to have around for a solar eclipse would be the Earth. That’s all I’m sayin’.
Angh, whatever.
On June 16, 2009 at 5:41 pm
If anyone has a picture of a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse right beside each other that would be great! It doesn’t have to be in that particular order I would prefer to have the lunar eclipse and then the solar eclipse and I would prefer to have a blood red lunar eclipse but that doesn’t matter. It’s for the book I am writing. If anyone happens to have this please email it to me at ValkyrieSorrows@gmail.com Thank you very much!
On June 16, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I doubt if anyone actually has this and I know that it is extremely impossible but all I’m asking for is something photo shopped. It can even look photo shopped but if someone does then that would be ruddy brilliant I tell you.
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