Starship Asterisk*

Awesome photo!

Has anyone tried to duplicate the shadow bands with a model of an eclipse? You might have to add a convecting heat source between the 'moon' and a white screen (where you observe the bands) for it to work.

Thanks very much for all the comments! Much appreciated.

Cheers,
Stephen

I cant get enough APODs! This one is great!

is it possible to get an image like this one from the ISS ?

There have been a lot of really good eclipse photos on APOD and elsewhere . . . but for my liking, this is the best of them all. This image has a grip and does not want to let you go. You could not have timed it any better. Wonderful job, Stephen!

At the right side of the moon, we may observe a clear anomalous cloudy globule with two little horns at the top?

Gary Lewis and the Playboys 1964 ??? Ed Sullivan show I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan

"Who wants to buyyyy, this Diamond Reeeeeeeiiinng....She took it off her finger, now....it doesn't mean a theeeeeinnng...."


Lovely ethereal shot of the eclipse. Which reminded me of the old song. And my own heartache.... :(

Let's hear it for Boomer.....AWWWWWWWE....

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very nice image, pass me an ice cold on, please !

[quote="geckzilla"][quote="hunterr"]Still no FB "Share" button? C'mon, man!This is a gret pic . . .[/quote]

Just copy and paste this link: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121121.html
And put it on your timeline. It's the same thing.[/quote]
Or, 'like' [url=http://www.facebook.com/AstronomyPictureOfTheDay][b]Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)[/b][/url] on facebook, and you can 'share' from there.

Stephen first posted this in our little Canon astrophotography forum.....congrats again!
[url]http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1247784[/url]

Exciting and stunning photo! Thank you.

[quote=" http://www.strickling.net/shadowbands.htm"]

[float=left][img]http://www.strickling.net/fls_anim.gif[/img][/float]_Shadow bands during a total solar eclipse_ by Dr. Wolfgang Strickling

:arrow: [b][color=#0000FF]fliegende Schatten Contrast enhanced and processed screenshot
from our Hi8-Video, 18 seconds before the second contact.
Videotaped by Dr. Andreas Dahm. Time is UT +2 h
For a highly resolved picture click on the right picture!
On the left you see an animated GIF of the shadowbands[/color][/b][/quote]
[float=right][img3=""]http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/11/Gravitational-lensing-ESA-1024x682.jpg[/img3][/float][size=125][url=http://www.strickling.net/shadowbands.htm]Atmospheric turbulence[/url] (and/or an [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_bands]atmospheric shock wave[/url] caused by the supersonic lunar shadow movement) not only bends the light of a much more distant eclipse sliver of emerging sunlight but focuses and brightens it into [u]multiple eclipse sliver images[/u] which then optically interfere with each other to produce diffraction shadowbands both on the ground and on cirrus clouds above.[/size]
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[b][color=#0000FF]In this illustration, the gravity of a large galaxy cluster :arrow:
not only bends the light of a much more distant galaxy
but focuses and brightens it into multiple images.
Credit: NASA/ESA/L. Calcada[/color][/b]

[quote="hunterr"]Still no FB "Share" button? C'mon, man!This is a gret pic . . .[/quote]

Just copy and paste this link: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121121.html
And put it on your timeline. It's the same thing.

Nice work Steven.

Still no FB "Share" button? C'mon, man!This is a gret pic . . .

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121121.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_121121.jpg[/img] [size=150]Diamond Ring and Shadow Bands[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] As the total phase of [url=http://www.eclipsecairns.com/]last week's solar eclipse[/url] came to an end, sunlight streaming past the edge of the Moon created the fleeting appearance of a glistening diamond ring [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121117.html]in the sky[/url]. And while most [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=30001#p187731]eclipse watchers[/url] did not consider clouds a welcome sight, a view through thin clouds north of Cairns in Queensland, Australia also revealed these remarkable flickering [url=http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/eclipse/observeeclipses/chapter7.htm]shadow bands[/url]. Projected onto the cloud layer, the bands are parallel to the sliver of emerging sunlight. Caused by [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000725.html]turbulence in[/url] Earth's atmosphere refracting the sliver of sunlight, the narrow bands were captured in this brief, 1/1000th second exposure.

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