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laisiewkim
Jul 20, 2009, 05:27 AM
Hi,
Is there a website to show the real pictures of lunar and solar eclipse taken on the moon looking at the earth... ever since men had landed the moon... thinking there might be a special camera install on the moon to capture these eclipse... should it falls in this location... thanks for reply kim.

Stratmando
Jul 20, 2009, 05:42 AM
Eclipses of the Sun by the Earth, seen from the Moon (http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~awc/eclipse.html)
Astronomical Art: Earth Eclipse (http://www.space-art.co.uk/pages-en/planetary/Earth-Eclipse.htm)
Sure glad you didn't ask "Eclipse from the Sun"

ebaines
Jul 20, 2009, 06:27 AM
I haven't been able to find anything about what a earth-side solar eclipse looks like to an observer on the moon (by this I mean when the moon passes between the sun and the earth - so it's a solar eclipse as seen fron the earth, and I suppose what you would call an "earth eclipse" if you lived on the moon). From the moon you should see a dark spot (the moon's umbra shadow) moving across the face of the earth. The spot would be up to 160 miles wide, which is the width of the umbra shadow that the moon casts on the earth during a solar eclipse.

As to a moon-side solar eclipse (what we call a lunar eclipse from the perspective of earth) - here's another site showing the earth blocking out the sun, as seen from a satellite's perspective near they moon:

JAXA | KAGUYA (SELENE) Successfully Captures Moving Images of the Earth at the Time of a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse using HDTV (http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/02/20090218_kaguya_e.html)