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AkaSci 🛰️

Here are the 4 well-known images of solar eclipses seen from the moon or from space:

1. NASA Surveyor 3 lunar lander, April 24, 1967
2. NASA Apollo 12 spacecraft, Moon->Earth, Nov 1969
3. JAXA KAGUYA (SELENE) Lunar orbiter, Feb 10, 2009
4. Firefly Blue Ghost lunar lander, March 14, 2025

Sources:
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140407.ht
science.nasa.gov/resource/ecli
global.jaxa.jp/press/2009/02/2
flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace

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4 images of solar eclipses seen from the moon or from space as described in the post
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Ari 2 Sheds Jackson

I did sit out in the backyard for about 15 minutes around 1:30 AM this morning to look at the #eclipse.

🌒🌕🌘

I had made up a thermos of sweet red tea in honor of the red moon (hibiscus, honey, pomegranate and other delicious things) before I went to bed, so that was warm and waiting for me next to my glasses case on the kitchen table.

I feel very mooned-up now, between the bike trip to the field to watch it rise and then getting up to see it eclipsed. Ahhhhh.

Every time I look at our only considerably-sized orbiting body, I wonder if it feels lonely? I've been reading space fiction again this week. Our space in general feels really lonely to me. 😔

#SkyWatching
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dee, love and enby

UK folk, a partial eclipse is happening on Saturday 29th March.

At approximately 10:08 GMT, the Moon will begin passing in front of the Sun, partially eclipsing it. Maximum eclipse, when most of the Sun is covered (30% to 40%), occurs around 11:06 GMT. The eclipse ends at 12:05 GMT. These times will vary by a few minutes, depending on your location. Stargazing locations (likely where people will congregate) can be found on gostargazing.co.uk/location-ma

Visibility forecasts for the next week can be found here: clearoutside.com/forecast/51.5 where a green hour is good visibility, a red hour is "sorry, nothing to see".

Times are in GMT, this is the day before DST kicks in.

DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN through any apparatus, you can be blinded. Purchase solar glasses from FLO if you don't own some already firstlightoptics.com/solar-fil

DO NOT USE A TELESCOPE OR CAMERA unless you have a sun filter or it is made for observing the sun (99.9% chance it does not).

a picture of the simulated eclipse as viewed from Darlington, UK.
#uk#astronomy#solar
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Kinetic Fox

Canon EOS M200, 300mm Canon telephoto lens. One long exposure for cloud motion blurring, one medium exposure for the redness of the eclipse, and one short exposure for the details of the bright crescent. Composited in Procreate for iPad, levels and details adjusted in Snapseed #LunarEclipse #Eclipse

A photo of the lunar eclipse. Sunlight from behind the earth filters through the planet’s atmosphere and paints the moon red. The alignment of the eclipsed has gone past totality which leaves a crescent of the moon unfiltered and bright white. Clouds make motion streaks around the moon from the long exposure times of the photographs.
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My camera shoots fascists

This blood-red eclipse is obviously an ill portent, a sign of bad things to come if we don't change our ways. It clearly — clearly! — means that we should sacrifice a bunch of scum-bucket fascists in a volcano.

Like, where did this "sacrifice a virgin" bullshit come from anyway? Any reasonably civilized society, when faced with gods seemingly angry at us for messing up, would obviously sacrifice the worst sociopaths and greedy bastards in the land. No time to build guillotines, send fascists and billionaires straight to the nearest lava! Don't delay, do it today!

#Eclipse#LunarEclipse
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My camera shoots fascists

Really wanted to get the best focus I could, so went back out front and tried again. I think this one's a little better. It's a lot of digital zooming, though, so it's never going to be super sharp.

Meanwhile, the javelina squadron, as they are called, is back to tearing up the neighbor's trash they left out. Arizona trash pandas.

#Eclipse #LunarEclipse

The moon through a telephoto lens fully eclipsed. It is a dark, rusty orange against a jet-black sky.
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