eclipse photo
Picture of the Sun during the July 11 eclipse: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100721.html
It's pretty and all but I'm amused by the language "The Crown of the Sun" (of course, the literal meaning of "corona") and by this: "features on the dim, near side of the New Moon can also be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth." I don't know how common it is to capture that in such a photograph, but it sort of compresses the Earth-Moon-Sun alignment required for a solar eclipse into a single symbolic image. The Sun containing the Moon and Earth, in other words, as in fact is the case (in an esoteric, Tree of Life sense, from the perspective of Earth). Just thought that was neat.
It's pretty and all but I'm amused by the language "The Crown of the Sun" (of course, the literal meaning of "corona") and by this: "features on the dim, near side of the New Moon can also be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth." I don't know how common it is to capture that in such a photograph, but it sort of compresses the Earth-Moon-Sun alignment required for a solar eclipse into a single symbolic image. The Sun containing the Moon and Earth, in other words, as in fact is the case (in an esoteric, Tree of Life sense, from the perspective of Earth). Just thought that was neat.