Full Lunar Eclipse Feb 20/21 / Earth picture |
Full Lunar Eclipse Feb 20/21 / Earth picture |
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I see we have a full lunar eclipse coming on Feb 20/21 (depending where you live).
I know that even during a full eclipse the Moon is still visible with a coppery hue, due to the refraction of light around the Earth. Now that we have a bunch of probes in orbit of the Moon, is there any plan / is it possible to take an image of the Earth from the Moon during totality? (or has this already been done?) I would think that a picture of the Earth surrounded by a red ring would be amazing! |
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For fun I can update this 7 year old thread to mention I'm working on a lunar eclipse model. It's possible for me to render images of the moon seen from Earth, and I'm starting to work on the Earth seen from the moon. Here is a work in progress of a view of Earth from the moon just barely inside the umbra. It still has a bit of aliasing to address. Careful inspection will show a white outer ring, a bluish middle region (from ozone) and a darker red inner region (within the troposphere). This run is without clouds, but does have some stratospheric aerosols.
More on the model is here: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/lunar/lunar.html -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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