I became a charter member of The Eclipse Chaser's Club, and learned how to best avoid clouds, or minimize their likelihood of stealing away the whole show, and became a pretty decent eclipse photographer. I got hooked myself, and for the thirteen years between 19 managed to see well and capture every total solar eclipse that touched Earth.
This astonishing sight lasts at most a handful of minutes (7 1/2 is about the maximum most are much shorter than that.) But the totality phase starts and ends with a briefer phase when the tiniest bit of sun's chromosphere peeks through some deep lunar valley or other, the so-called "diamond-ring" effect, for that's a pretty good description of what it looks like.Īnyway, it's common for astronomy-interested people of all kinds to get quite "hooked" on seeing these rare events, traveling all over the world to often odd locations, just to catch sight of what I've tried in vain to hint at above. Each time the corona looks quite different, and like an old friend's face you'll recognize each in photographs.
SUN CORONA PHOTOSHOP FULL
Sunset colors bathe the full horizon, while a gaping black hole gazes down at you from the inky sky, eye-like and surreal, surrounded by the solar corona, a halo of pearly ephemeral light of delicate beauty. When that happens, at least if you're lucky to be within the very narrow path the moon's shadow traces during the next few hours (or less), you will witness the day become near-night, like the deepest twilight.
By the most unlikely odds, earth's moon is nearly the same angular size as the sun, when they are viewed from the surface-half a degree (it varies only a few percent during the year.) This permits the moon's orb, when it's path crosses the sun's, to just barely block out the intense light from the sun completely, fitting the solar disk just inside the moon's craggier one. T otal solar Eclipses are a bigger part of my life than I'd like to admit (a touch of mindless obsession lurks nearby.) But for those who have witnessed this most spectacular of natural events, no words are capable of expressing the awe, the goose bumps, the thrill of the chase, the indelible memories wrought by one of these beauties. Note : Trash your Cache or hit Reload, to be sure you'regetting the latest page versions.
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