"On Saturday, Aug. 16th, Earth's shadow fell across the Moon producing a partial lunar eclipse visible from every continent except North America. Italian photographer Marco Fulle calls this photo of the event Miss Eclipse:
Local students put on a show demonstrating how eclipses work," he explains. "As part of the project, they had to calculate the geometry of a simulated eclipse. The shadow made by their classroom globe, for instance, had to be 38 times the size of the globe itself to match Earth's actual shadow. Then they had to find a local building with the right orientation and architecture for shadow casting. The New Church of San Giovanni near Trieste, Italy, was selected for this purpose."
"The final result was a projected shadow so perfectly matching the real Earth one, that the student holding the globe seemed to be the real actor responsible of the ongoing eclipse," marvels Fulle.
Congratulations, Miss Eclipse, on a job well done! More information about the performance may be found on page 4 of the eclipse gallery:
