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Tunç Tezel @tunctezel.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

APOD 74 All Sky Moon Shadow and Eclipse Sun is up, but the sky is dark and the horizon is bright all around. Then you are in the Moon's shadow during a total eclipse of the Sun. Along with the solar corona surrounding the silhouette of the Moon planets and stars are visible during totality.

From the photographer: “I observed the total Solar eclipse of 8th April 2024 at a farm near Fox and Shirley, Arkansas, which lasted lasted 4 minutes 15 seconds.

One aspect about the total Solar eclipses I like very much is the dark blue sky surrounded by twilight colours all round the horizon and stars becoming visible. There is never enough time to look for the stars, so I try to do the next best thing, which is photographing all the sky and horizon.

In this panorama, the southern horizon is at the bottom, east is to the left, north at top and west is to the right. The Sun was high due south during totality. Thanks to the Lunar shadow being larger than normal, the sky got dark enough to record four planets and many stars above at our location. Alternate image is the annotated version of this panorama, labeling the visible planets, some bright stars and also showing some constellation figure lines.