Eclipses - Solar And Lunar

Total Lunar Eclipse - February 20, 2008

A timelapse of the total lunar eclipse on February 20th, 2008. Recorded with still images. Thanks for the feature! peteherron.com The image shakes because the moon moves during the night, obviousl...

2003: Flight over the surface of the Sun

Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux)

This is the latest incarnation of the HDF video. The narration has been edited to include research from a paper in Physical Review Letters (2004) which puts the size of the universe at 46.5 billio...

Century’s Longest Solar Eclipse on July 22

July 22 will witness the 21st century’s longest and most spectacular total solar eclipse.
The head of Iran’s Amateur Astronomy Society, Masoud Atiqi, also told IRNA that the eclipse will last for 6 minutes, 39 seconds.
“The eclipse will start in India and cross Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China,“ he said.
“The more you move to the east of China, the longer the solar eclipse will be.“
After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean.

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