A stunning solar eclipse video unlike any you’ve ever seen

Last calendar month , residents of northern Australia had an exclusive opportunity to observe Earth ’s last total solar eclipse until 2015 . Photographer Colin Legg captured the event on camera and produced the beautiful timelapse video image up top . It ’s a remarkably elementary clip , and over in a thing of second , but it ’s shot from an unusually high vantage stop that allowed Legg to seize the dramatic end run of the Moon ’s phantasm . The swinging of the planet ’s silhouette often goes unnoticed by skygazers , but Legg ’s timelapse reveals it is nothing short of unbelievable to behold .

NASA ’s APODgives a gambling - by - play description of Legg ’s footage :

As the video begin , a slim dimming of the Sun and the surrounding Earth is scantily detectable . Suddenly , as the Moon moves to cover nearly the entire Sun , dark sweeps in from the left — the fully blocked part of the Sun . At totality , only the hopeful solar St. Elmo’s fire extends past the edges of the Moon , and darkness circumvent you . remote horizons are still bright , though , as they are not in the drear part of the vestige . At mid - totality the darkness dips to the horizon below the eclipsed Sun , created by the shadow cone — a corridor of shadow that trace back to the Moon . As the full solar eclipse end — usually after a few minutes — the process reverses and Moon ’s apparition propel off to the other side .

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