Annular Eclipse Phase Spiral
The Ring of Fire Eclipse, when the Moon is in Apogee it can’t eclipse the entire Sun.
An Annular Eclipse is known as a Ring of Fire Eclipse because the Moon never covers the entire Sun. This type of Eclipse happens when the Moon is in apogee, its farthest point from Earth. This is why the sun’s golden ring shows throughout the event. When the ring is perfectly even all the way around, that is known as the moment of Annularity.
It is important to keep your eyes protected the entire time during one of these Eclipses, that is still a fully bright sun even if the atmosphere has dimmed. Don’t look into the sun without eye protection.
This is my image of the different phases of the eclipse. After many hours of fussing over the design, I am thrilled with the stylized-s spiral effect I was able to achieve. I designed this image horizontally, but it also works well presented vertically.
The dance of the day and night.
My experience in October 2023 watching the Annular “Ring of Fire” Solar Eclipse from my best friend's back patio in South Texas. We wore Luna Lovegood Spectrespecs (which I made by gluing perler beads on the front of real solar glasses) and watched in awe for hours as the moon crossed over the sun.
The cooling of the air wasn’t very noticeable until the sun began to heat the world again. The heat of the suns rays was hard to ignore as our star came back out from behind the moon curtain. Don't forget to stay hydrated.
The Ring of Fire. The October 2023 solar eclipse at the moment of annularity. Don't take your glasses off, even if you are tempted! The sun is still shining as bright as ever in a ring around the moon. The temperature dropped significantly, the world grew quite, and we watched in amazement. It happens so fast, this instance in Southern Texas was only 5 minutes time, then the sun starts to brighten again and the heat returns with the light.
An hour before the eclipse began, the sky was filled with clouds. As the eclipse began, the clouds were beginning to clear, but still lingered just over the event, like a horizon line right next to the sun. Luckily, the light of the sun was powerful enough to bust through the clouds, and they gave the photos some pretty cool effects to boot.
Annular Eclipse in 3 Phases
The yellow and orange color is provided by my solar filter, and it did an outstanding visual job creating an ombre effect with my different camera settings throughout the eclipse. The flow of this image has the ability to just captivate you.
The wispy shadow effect in the first (beginning) phase in the upper left corner is caused by clouds still hanging around from the morning. An hour before the eclipse started, the South Texas sky was filled with clouds. I was very lucky that the clouds cleared up, but even luckier that my BFF just happened to live in the path of annularity. A perfect excuse to visit a friend I see entirely too rarely.
“Everyday we are blinded by our own personal star.”
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