"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote in message 
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> "Jellby" <me### [at] privacynet> schreef in bericht 
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>> Has anyone seen a picture (ideally a photograph) of how a lunar eclipse
>> looks from the Moon (from there, it would be a solar eclipse). In total
>> lunar eclipses the Moon usually gets a reddish tint, apparently from
>> sunset-like light all around the Earth (as seen from the Moon), I'd like to
>> see this.
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> There is a subject for an awesome POV-Ray scene.... As said already by others, 
> I don't think there are any photographs available.
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Actually, Surveyor II took a picture of a solar eclipse from the moon.
Images were retrieved by Apollo 12 crew who also snapped a nice picture
in space (not on the moon's surface).

There is a page with good math data at 
http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~awc/eclipse.html
(part 2).

Theory says the earth will be quite a sight as earthshine will center an
image of a planet surrounded by all the world's sunsets at the same time.

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