Total Solar Eclipse over Svalbard
			
		
		
			Image Credit & Copyright:  
Thanakrit Santikunaporn
		
		
			Going, going, gone. 
That was the feeling in 
Svalbard, 
Norway 
last month during a 
total eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. 
In the 
featured image, the eclipse was captured every three minutes and then digitally merged with a foreground frame taken from the 
same location.
Visible in the foreground are numerous gawking 
eclipse seekers, 
some deploying pretty sophisticated cameras. 
As the Moon and Sun moved together across the sky -- 
nearly horizontally from this far north -- 
an increasing fraction of the Sun appears 
covered by the Moon.
In the 
central frame, the Moon's 
complete blockage 
of the disk of the Sun makes the immediate 
surroundings appear like night during the day.
The exception is the Moon itself, which now appears surrounded by the 
expansive corona 
of the Sun. 
Of course, about 2.5 minutes later, the surface of the Sun began to 
reappear. 
The next 
total eclipse 
of the Sun will occur in 2016 March and 
be visible 
from Southeast Asia.