9/17: Eclipse from space

What does an eclipse look like </i>from the other side?</i> If it's a lunar eclipse, it looks like this, where the big dark spot over Europe is actually a shadow of the moon.

This image, along with other nifty satellite images that might be future IotDs, are at the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station .

A lunar eclipse is when the Earth is between the Sun and Moon, projecting its shadow onto the Moon.

A solar eclipse is what this picture shows, when the Moon is between the Sun and Earth, projecting its shadow onto the Earth.

What's interesting to see from this picture is the totality of the eclipse, with 100% totality being somewhere in northern Italy, and probably around 50% totality in France. One of my goals in life is to be able to witness at least 2 phenomona in astronomy, a total solar eclipse and an aurora borealis. I've been planning to take a vacation somewhere in north Alaska for years. A friend of mine there says he gets the northern lights about every 4 days.

-Cyc

Ugh. You're right, my bad.

I have a color pic taken from MIR of an eclipse that I use as wallpaper.

Hey, that's a better image than mine, but the only thing about yours is that I can't tell what part of the earth it's over.

I've done that now

The pic *I* had was ALSO named "eclipse99". So there ya go.

BTW, if anyone wants it, I have a higher res version, that I can post/email, it makes a better version for wallpaper.

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Ha! I found the original:



You can get the full-size version here

This is from the Astronomy Picture of the Day, which has some pretty cool pix. The specific page that this picture came from is here.

with that better image, it looks like it's right over asia. I think that's the mediteranian just above the left half of the shadow. So that would be africa to the left and the persian gulf in the bottom left. hard to be sure though.