The moon orbits earth every 29.5 days, but we don’t get eclipses every month, because the moon’s orbit is not in line with Earth's orbit. Together these make up the sun’s outer atmosphere and a total solar eclipse is the only occasion you have to appreciate it. Once the totality is reached, you’ll be able to see the glow of the sun’s corona and the pink and red light from the hydrogen gas of the chromosphere. The moon’s shadow advances towards you from the west and if you look up, you’ll see the last beams of the sun surrounding the moon’s shadow like a diamond ring. The temperature drops and landscape darkens to a bluish-grey. During the event you’ll notice shadows becoming sharper than normal, and trees projecting the crescent sun. There are basically 6 types of eclipses: we have penumbral, partial and total lunar eclipses, and on the other hand partial, annular and total solar eclipses, the latter being the most spectacular ones.Ī total solar eclipse starts out as a partial eclipse.
During an eclipse there are two sections of the shadow, the dark umbra and the partially shaded penumbra, and their placement determines which type of eclipse we can see from Earth. In contrast, lunar eclipses occur when the Earth’s shadow falls on the moon. A solar eclipse happens when the moon’s shadow falls somewhere on the surface of Earth. On Monday, our friends in North America are going to be able to witness one of the most impressive natural phenomena, a total solar eclipse.
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