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ALT Side-by-side comparison of two views of the gas giant Saturn, labeled “August 29, 2025” at the top left corner. At left is a straight-on view of Saturn, a globe with pale yellow horizontal bands at the equator and orange and pink at the mid-latitudes. Some bands towards the north and south pole have a light blue hue. There are prominent horizontal rings circling at the equator. At right, labeled “Saturn’s south pole,” the south-polar view of Saturn shows concentric bands in its atmosphere, mostly tan and orange, surrounding a dark central region that has a 10-sided outline. A small, dashed circle at the very center of the pole with an “X” inside denotes missing data.
ALT This is a wide-angle view from northern Spain of the total eclipse of the Sun of August 12, 2026 in the twilight sky at "second contact," when the edge of the incoming lunar shadow touches the Sun and totality begins with the first diamond ring. To the south (left) the sky is bright from light coming from outside the shadow. At this eclipse the umbral shadow was moving from north (right) to south, though the view is looking slightly north of due west to the setting Sun at about 8:29 pm local time. The field of view is about 100º wide. To the far upper left is the planet Venus. It was then near its greatest elongation (angular separation) about 45º east of the Sun. Technical: This is a single 0.4-second exposure at f/2.8 with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm on the Canon Ra at ISO 200. It is one frame from a 520-frame time-lapse sequence of the shadow motion across the sky.
ALT This is a wide-angle view from northern Spain of the total eclipse of the Sun of August 12, 2026 in the twilight sky at "third contact," when the edge of the incoming lunar shadow leaves the Sun and totality ends with the second diamond ring. To the north (right) the sky is bright from light coming from outside the shadow. At this eclipse the umbral shadow was moving from north to south (left), though the view is looking slightly north of due west to the setting Sun at about 8:31 pm local time. The field of view is about 100º wide. To the far upper left is the planet Venus. It was then near its greatest elongation (angular separation) about 45º east of the Sun, and visible well after totality. Technical: This is a single 0.5-second exposure at f/2.8 with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm on the Canon Ra at ISO 200. It is one frame from a 520-frame time-lapse sequence of the shadow motion across the sky.
ALT This version has labels and the lines for the intersecting ecliptic (the apparent path of the Sun, along which we find the planets) and the lunar orbit tilted 5º off the ecliptic. This eclipse occured (as do all solar eclipses) because the Moon at New phase was crossing the ecliptic at the same point where the Sun was located, something the New Moon can do only twice a year, but not always producing a total eclipse like this. The location was the Bodegas Nabal winery near the town of Gumiel de Izan east of Valladolid and south of Burgos, in the region of Castile Y Leon. The site was selected by the tour company Capture the Atlas as the exclusive private venue for the group of 100 eclipse enthusiasts I was privileged to be with, serving as one their expert instructors. Technical: This is a single 1.3-second exposure at f/2.8 with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm on the Canon Ra at ISO 200. It is one frame from a 520-frame time-lapse sequence of the shadow motion across the sky.
ALT The eclipsed Sun is set in the dark conical umbral shadow of the Moon projected on Earth's atmosphere. Because we were near the end of the path of the Moon's shadow with the Sun low in the west before sunset, the lunar shadow on the Earth was elongated into an ellipse and appeared in the sky as a cone of darkness. This image is from mid-totality with the shadow centered over us. This is looking a little north of due west. To the south (left) and north (right) the sky is bright from light coming from outside the conical shadow. The shadow was moving from north (right) to south (left). To the far upper left is the planet Venus. It was then near its greatest elongation (angular separation) about 45º east of the Sun. the left and above the Sun. Jupiter and Mercury were low in the sky below and to the right of the Sun but only Jupiter is barely visible to the camera amid the horizon haze. It was not visible to the eye.
