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Hungarian Spring Eclipse

Explanation: Last week, as the Sun set a Full Moon rose over the springtime landscape of Tihany, Hungary on the northern shores of Lake Balaton. As it climbed into the clear sky, the Moon just grazed the dark, umbral shadow of planet Earth in the year's first partial lunar eclipse. The partial phase, seen near the top of this frame where the lunar disk is darkened along the upper limb, lasted for less than 27 minutes. Composited from consecutive exposures, the picture presents the scene's range of natural colors and subtle shading apparent to the eye. At next week's New Moon, the season's celestial shadow play will continue with an annular solar eclipse, the path of annularity tracking through northern Australia and the central Pacific.

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saturno2 wrote:I like

Me, too.

It reminds me of a space shuttle launch and then it rotates and looks like it's flying upside down.

?? I liked the Swan youtube, but couldn't figure out what it had to do with the moon! I must have missed the point.

Reflection??

orin stepanek wrote:?? I liked the Swan youtube, but couldn't figure out what it had to do with the moon! I must have missed the point.

"Clair de Lune" is French for "moonlight"

Very nice composite Tamas Ladanyi and congrats on having it posted to APOD. Our side of the world will miss out on eclipses this year.

beautiful.

Our moon tries hard to break out from the humdrum of mediacracy.

I often wish our Earth had some more moons, that would take a significantly different path across the sky than the Sun; That they would travel at a different speed across the sky than the Sun; That they would be a different color than the Sun, like greenish or blueish; that they would travel in the opposite direction than the Sun; that they would be a different size than the Sun; and or even be visible during the day, like our Sun . Whew thank god for eclipses and the soft colors of sunsets and rises!


Mark

Stunning. It's great to see what the eclipse looks like, even if it is just a picture.

mjimih wrote:I often wish our Earth had some more moons, that would take a significantly different path across the sky than the Sun; That they would travel at a different speed across the sky than the Sun; That they would be a different color than the Sun, like greenish or blueish; that they would travel in the opposite direction than the Sun; that they would be a different size than the Sun; and or even be visible during the day, like our Sun :lol2: . Whew thank god for eclipses and the soft colors of sunsets and rises!

Traveling in different paths or directions across the sky compared with the Sun would be unlikely in a system with long term stability, and I don't think we'd want to live on a planet without such stability! But I'm rather certain that our existing Moon is quite visible during the day, all but a few days a month.

Chris Peterson wrote:

mjimih wrote:I often wish our Earth had some more moons, that would take a significantly different path across the sky than the Sun; That they would travel at a different speed across the sky than the Sun; That they would be a different color than the Sun, like greenish or blueish; that they would travel in the opposite direction than the Sun; that they would be a different size than the Sun; and or even be visible during the day, like our Sun . Whew thank god for eclipses and the soft colors of sunsets and rises!

Traveling in different paths or directions across the sky compared with the Sun would be unlikely in a system with long term stability, and I don't think we'd want to live on a planet without such stability! But I'm rather certain that our existing Moon is quite visible during the day, all but a few days a month.

What a shame, as I would never get tired of watching a green moon racing from the SE to the NW 4 times a day at about 120,000 miles away (about twice as close as today) looking very large.

Maybe in the near enough future someone will make a science fiction movie illustrating my highly improbable request.