Walking through the streets of Brooklyn, people poured out of storefronts, giggling and looking up at the sky with their paper glasses. Everyone, it seems, was focused on one thing: the solar eclipse.
It's the morning of April 8, 2024. My camera equipment is packed in their bags, and vital Sun rotation information and eclipse timing information are scratched in a notepad. Somehow, despite years of notice about this historic total solar eclipse, the first to hit my home state of Maine since 1963 and the last until 2079, I'm committing the cardinal sin of photography: I'm trying to photograph a once-in-a-lifetime event with nebulous plans and no scouting.
Two pilots and a pair of photographers teamed up to create what they are describing as a "once-in-a-lifetime" set of photos featuring two planes passing through the last solar eclipse in North America for 20 years.
After years of anticipation, the 2024 total solar eclipse has finally arrived. Many millions of Americans will be in or near the eclipse's path of totality, ranging from Texas to Maine. However, hundreds of millions more people will have to find other ways to enjoy the celestial event. That's where ABC News and National Geographic come in with Eclipse Across America.
National Geographic photographer, Canon Explorer of Light, and friend of PetaPixel Keith Ladzinski is preparing for the total solar eclipse on April 8th and has plenty of tips to help other photographers capture great shots next Monday.
For those who may have somehow missed it, a historic total solar eclipse will be visible across much of North America on April 8. Photographing an eclipse can be tricky, but fret not. You'll surely capture some great photos next week with these helpful tips.
My Exmouth eclipse expedition could be a case study on the 'sunk cost fallacy' or proof that even blind persistence can pay off. Either way, it is a saga.
With the total solar eclipse now just weeks away, the American Astronomical Society has advised people to take great care when viewing the celestial event. And that includes photographers.
The Eclipse Company is ramping up its support of those preparing to watch North America's total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 through a new app that helps viewers plan their route, viewing location, and more.
While the hotel brand Days Inn by Wyndham is offering a pair of photographers "2024's hottest gig" and $10,000 by flying them up in a private helicopter to capture the total solar eclipse in April, American company Delta Air Lines is selling a special flight to view the eclipse for other umbraphiles, a fancy word for someone who chases eclipses.
Unistellar is bringing its Smart Solar Filter to the Odyssey line of telescopes with plenty of time to spare ahead of the highly anticipated solar eclipse hits North America this spring.
The Mars Perseverance Rover captured an eclipse last week from the surface of Mars as a moon passed in front of the Sun.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a pair of satellites called the Proba-3 which will do what was previously thought impossible: block out the Sun in order to observe its corona for an extended period of time.
Last weekend, the Moon aligned with the Sun and Earth to produce what is known as an annular solar eclipse. Colloquially referred to as a "ring of fire" eclipse, the effects were beautiful from Earth and, as a photo shows, eerie from space.
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible for a large portion of the United States. A new map created by The Planetary Society and The Eclipse Company will help photographers select the best location from which to see it.
NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Next month will see an annular solar eclipse viewable from parts of the United States, which means all …
The total solar eclipse that will shroud areas from Texas to Maine in darkness next April will be the last time to catch such an event in the contiguous U.S. until 2044. NASA wants to ensure that researchers are prepared to perform experiments during the event, and has announced funding for five interdisciplinary science experiments.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured Mars rising behind the full Moon which temporarily eclipsed the Red Planet in the night sky on Wednesday.
Aloha and welcome. You must be here because like most people, you waited until the last minute to do something. Or maybe you are just genuinely curious and had no idea there is a total lunar eclipse coming up. Whatever it is, welcome, and thanks for being here.
NASA has released a guide to the night sky in October advising that planetary giants, partial eclipses, and meteor showers will all be visible this month.
Photojournalist Gary Hershorn has a distinctive flair for enchanting luminosity and utilizing unconventional vantage points. This is a persistent challenge when shooting one of New York City's most popular subjects: its skyline.
The Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) took advantage of its unique vantage spot in space to capture stunning images of a partial solar eclipse.
The Mars Perseverance rover has captured detailed footage of Phobos, one of the Red Planet's moons, crossing the face of the Sun. It is the most zoomed-in, highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse taken from the Martian surface.
The United States will play host to a total solar eclipse in April of 2024. While looking at an event two years away might sound like planning overkill, it will be the last time to catch one in the contiguous U.S. until 2044.
On December 4, 2021, a total solar eclipse occurred over the skies of Antarctica. It was the only place on Earth where it was visible, and this photo from space shows the huge shadow the event cast over the southernmost continent.
For the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched the sun. NASA has announced that the Parker Solar probe flew through the sun's upper atmosphere and captured "coronal streamers" up close, something only ever previously seen from afar.
On December 4, a total solar eclipse was only visible from Antarctica, which is where Theo Boris and Christian A. Lockwood were positioned to photograph it and live stream the event for NASA.
The longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years occurred this week, and photographers around the world did their best to capture the once-in-a-lifetime event on camera. Photographer Andrew McCarthy went the extra mile by staying up until 4am and capturing thousands of photos to create an incredible composite of the eclipse.
A New York photographer planned and sketched in great detail a solar eclipse photo he wanted to capture ahead of the event, and managed to match that plan perfectly in his finished image.
Photographer Zev Hoover was shooting the solar eclipse early this morning when a bird happened to fly through the frame. He then decided to create this unusual image showing the trail of the dark silhouetted bird against the partial annular eclipse.
Annular solar eclipses give us the chance to capture incredible photos. Photographer Josh Cripps shot an incredible photo of one back in 2019. Simply legendary!
G’day from Australia, my name is Jason De Freitas (@jase.film on Instagram), and I’m a photographer mostly known for my analog astrophotography. In this article, I’ll describe the process and decisions I went through to take this lunar eclipse multi-exposure sequence on medium format film.
You're about to learn everything you need to photograph a lunar eclipse, including the upcoming total lunar eclipse on May 26, 2021. Everything!
Photographer Joshua Cripps recently captured something really cool. Finding himself in the UAE leading up to an annular solar eclipse, he decided to try and shoot a dynamic portrait in the middle of the 'ring of fire' effect created by this kind of eclipse.
Here's an unusual sunrise that was captured a few days ago in Qatar. A solar eclipse was underway as the Sun began rising above the horizon, making the Sun look like it was split into two pieces (and like red horns rising into the sky).
In August of 2017, the team at Sent Into Space travelled to Fort Laramie, Wyoming to capture something incredible for the BBC. Using a high-altitude weather balloon and a 360° camera array, they captured what they claim is "the world's first hyperlapse of an eclipse from the edge of space."
One of the best things time-lapse photography has given me is my interest in astronomy. When I started shooting the night sky, I needed to learn basic astronomy in order to understand what I was photographing. Thanks to that, I was able to capture a time-lapse of the total solar eclipse this past July 2nd in Córdoba, Argentina.
Photographer and astronomer Matt Robinson was in Chile for the only total solar eclipse of 2019 on July 2nd, and he managed to capture the total eclipse in a drone hyperlapse.
Last week I made the long trip from the UK to Chile in the hopes of capturing my first total solar eclipse. I had experienced a cloudy total solar eclipse from the UK in 1999 but back then I was just 9 years old and certainly no photographer. Now that I’m apparently a professional landscape astrophotographer, a total solar eclipse was a gaping hole in my portfolio.
Photographer Albert Dros may have captured one of the coolest photos of yesterday's total solar eclipse in Chile. In addition to a few striking photos of a his model, Bart Lablans, standing next to the eclipse, he also managed to capture Bart "holding" it at totality. Take that cliché Leaning Tower of Pisa photos.