On 27 Oct 2004 03:02:19 GMT, Ol' Duffer wrote:

That view from the moon would be a solar eclipse, by
definition. I imagine it would look quite a bit like
the photos taken by coronographs.

No, it wouldn't look like that. From the Moon, the angular size of the Earth is
much bigger than that of the Sun- you wouldn't see much of the corona at
totality (but you would probably see part of it just after second contact unless
the atmospheric scatter was too bright).

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