Eclipse Phase Spiral
The 2023 Ring of Fire Annular Eclipse
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 Southern Texas. We wore our 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.
This is my image of the different phases of the eclipse. After many hours of fussing over the design, I am thrilled with the spiral effect I was able to achieve. I designed this image horizontally, but it also works well presented vertically.
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.
An Annular Eclipse is known as a Ring of Fire Eclipse because the moon never covers the entire sun. It is important to keep your eyes protected the entire time during one of these eclipses. 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.
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Just the middle annularity moments of the Ring of Fire Eclipse, as seen from Texas in October 2023.