Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.

This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!

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Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Solar Eclipse Diamond Ring Effect

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@coreyspowell It looks like there's a slight bright spot on the opposite side from he sun. Any idea why that would happen?

@ryanjyoder Do you mean in the 'north-west' (top left) of the ring of light? I'd assume an irregularity in the Earth's surface - similar to the effect of Baily's beads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily%27s_beads) in the case of when the moon eclipses the sun.

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Baily's beads - Wikipedia

@zeborah @coreyspowell yeah exactly, top left. It seems to large to be irregularities. But I have no idea.

@ryanjyoder @zeborah @coreyspowell

If you consider that the earth is far from round, it's reasonable.

@deirdrebeth @zeborah @coreyspowell I was thinking that too but it's mostly at the poles that it's narrower, so it still didn't make sense to me

@ryanjyoder @zeborah @coreyspowell

Where are the poles in that picture? It's not like "up" and "down" mean anything.

@deirdrebeth @zeborah @coreyspowell I guess my assumption was the sun would rise near the equator.
@ryanjyoder @deirdrebeth @zeborah @coreyspowell Could be solar flares. Here’s my pic of the total eclipse of 2024 (taken from Earth but still amazing for me!) in which you can clearly see the flares.