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Marcel Strelow
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Whether an eclipse goes total or leaves a ring of fire is decided by the moon's distance from Earth that day: near perigee it appears about 6% larger than the sun and covers it completely; near apogee it appears about 8% smaller and leaves the blazing annulus. Somewhere on Earth this happens two to five times a year; at any single spot, a total eclipse comes around every 375 years on average, which makes eclipse photography travel photography.
The post covers the photography side (certified glasses and a solar filter for every partial phase, and the low-horizon composition trick that made the August 2026 totality over the Atlantic so photogenic) and the planning side: every eclipse through 2030 is built into Inverza with NASA/GSFC eclipse geometry, so the 3D Diorama shows the sun and moon discs overlapping over real terrain with an exact eclipse percentage, and AR Sky verifies the frame on location. Includes exact coordinates, local times, sun altitudes, and compass directions for the best photographic spots of every eclipse through 2030: Luxor and Cadiz in 2027, the sunset ring of fire over Cadiz in 2028, the Sydney Opera House and Queenstown in 2028, Athens in 2030, and Windhoek and Durban in 2030.
Watch Nigel North plan the August 2026 eclipse at Dragonstone on YouTube:
Read the full post.
The post covers the photography side (certified glasses and a solar filter for every partial phase, and the low-horizon composition trick that made the August 2026 totality over the Atlantic so photogenic) and the planning side: every eclipse through 2030 is built into Inverza with NASA/GSFC eclipse geometry, so the 3D Diorama shows the sun and moon discs overlapping over real terrain with an exact eclipse percentage, and AR Sky verifies the frame on location. Includes exact coordinates, local times, sun altitudes, and compass directions for the best photographic spots of every eclipse through 2030: Luxor and Cadiz in 2027, the sunset ring of fire over Cadiz in 2028, the Sydney Opera House and Queenstown in 2028, Athens in 2030, and Windhoek and Durban in 2030.
Watch Nigel North plan the August 2026 eclipse at Dragonstone on YouTube:
Read the full post.