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The
Long Shadow.
Tony
Cook (images)
has waited for several years to capture
this shot of the Earth’s
shadow darkening our own sky and simultaneously shading the
Moon 220,000 miles away. The low eclipsed Moon of Sept 7,
2006 is seen through our purple shadowed atmosphere with
the pink “Belt
of Venus” marking
the shadow edge. The Northern portion of the Moon is deep
in the umbra of the self same shadow cone extending
far from the Earth and also way beyond the Moon.
“[The] idea
came to me a few years back when watching a near full
moon rise in a strong belt of Venus. I honestly expected
this one never to happen
given that the number of suitable lunar eclipses was thin
on the ground (unless world travel was an option - not)
- it just turned out to be third time lucky. Mind you with
all the Internet resources at my disposal yesterday,
a 30 mile
drive out to the North Yorkshire Moors [England] looked
a good bet - flat horizon all round and promised clear
skies shortly before sunset – hats of to the BBC
weather site for that one as it happened just like that – one
minute fair weather clouds everywhere, in next few minutes
they thinned away
and voila!”
Image ©206 Tony Cook, shown with permission.
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