New Moon
 A high-dynamic range composite of the total eclipse of the Sun, March 2006 as seen from Southern Turkey
It's an amazing co-incidence that the Sun, which is 400 times farther away than the Moon is also 400 times larger than the Moon. When the two line up in the sky, the Moon's dark disk is able to just block out the Sun's disk allowing eclipse chasers to see the exquisite beauty of the Sun's inner atmosphere - the corona.

In this unusual image, various exposures have been combined together to blend the brighter inner regions of the corona with the much fainter outer streamers. A longer exposure of the eclipse itself has been added into the shot to reveal the dimly lit face of the Moon. Illuminated by refelcted light from the Earth (Earthshine) this predomonantly blue light colours out nearest natural neighbour in space to produce a truly blue new Moon.

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