Timelapse Shows the Blazing Beauty of a 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse

By Nancy Atkinson - May 15, 2013 at 1:54 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Images and videos are still coming in from last week's spectacular annular eclipse of the Sun, seen across Australia and the southern Pacific region on May 10, 2013. This gorgeous timelapse by

Colin Legg

captures the eclipse from 3 locations in the Pilbara, Western Australia where the Sun was rising at the time of the event. "If you ever get to see an annular eclipse, I recommend going to the path limits (sunset or sunrise)," Legg said on

Vimeo

. "All sorts of weird things happen to the Sun, right on the horizon."

Wow.

See more at our previous

gallery of images and video

from the eclipse.

Ring of Fire - May 10 2013 Annular Solar Eclipse, Pilbara, Western Australia from Colin Legg on Vimeo.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com