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Event Horizon - Astronomical and Terrestrial Images

Home > Astronomical Images > Solar System > Total Solar Eclipse - March 2006 Total Solar Eclipse - March 2006 First Contact296 viewsAt 12:39:58.1, local time, the Moon starts to encroach on the disk of the Sun. Since there is not much to say about partial phase eclipse images, I have captioned them with stanzas from Archibald Macleish's poem "You, Andrew Marvell" - a magical piece which best conveys the awe and wonder of the stunning natural spectacle we know as a total eclipse of the Sun - and, in the case of the post-totality shots, a few verses from other metaphysical works. Pre-Totality 2250 viewsAnd here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth’s noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night: Pre-Totality 3226 viewsTo feel creep up the curving east The earthy chill of dusk and slow Upon those under lands the vast And ever climbing shadow grow Pre-Totality 4246 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees Take leaf by leaf the evening strange The flooding dark about their knees The mountains over Persia change Pre-Totality 5250 viewsAnd now at Kermanshah the gate Dark empty and the withered grass And through the twilight now the late Few travelers in the westward pass Pre-Totality 6303 viewsAnd Baghdad darken and the bridge Across the silent river gone And through Arabia the edge Of evening widen and steal on Pre-Totality 7251 viewsAnd deepen on Palmyra’s street The wheel rut in the ruined stone And Lebanon fade out and Crete High through the clouds and overblown Pre-Totality 8220 viewsAnd over Sicily the air Still flashing with the landward gulls And loom and slowly disappear The sails above the shadowy hulls Pre-Totality 9234 viewsAnd Spain go under and the shore Of Africa the gilded sand And evening vanish and no more The low pale light across that land Pre-Totality 10289 viewsNor now the long light on the sea: Totality 1250 viewsAnd here face downward in the sun To feel how swift how secretly The shadow of the night comes on ... 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