... Nearing the farthest part of its orbit around the Earth , the Moon's angular size was too small to block the entire Sun, a situation that would have resulted in a totalsolareclipse . ...
... But, just one day before the August 11 totalsolareclipse , astronomer Tunc Tezel captured this fleeting view of a close conjunction of Mercury and the soon to be silhouetted Moon as seen from Turkey. ...
... Explanation: In a flash, the visible spectrum of the Sun changed from absorption to emission on November 3rd, during the brief total phase of a solareclipse. ...
... For Fred Espenak , aboard a gently swaying ship within the middle of the Moon's shadow track about 2,200 kilometers west of the Galapagos, the eclipse was total, the lunar silhouette exactly covering the bright solar disk for a few brief moments. ...
... For Fred Espenak , aboard a gently swaying ship within the middle of the Moon's shadow track about 2,200 kilometers west of the Galapagos, the eclipse was total, the lunar silhouette exactly covering the bright solar disk for a few brief moments. ...