This composite image of an annular solar eclipse was taken by Koji Kudo from Kawasaki, Japan, on May 21, 2012. Totality may last as long as 7 minutes 31 seconds, though most total eclipses are usually much shorter.
Those who are fortunate enough to be positioned in the direct path of the umbra will see the sun's disk diminish into a crescent as the moon's dark shadow rushes toward them across the landscape.ĭuring the brief period of totality, when the sun is completely covered, the beautiful corona - the tenuous outer atmosphere of the sun - is revealed. It is surrounded by the penumbra, a lighter, funnel-shaped shadow from which sunlight is partially obscured.ĭuring a total solar eclipse, the moon casts its umbra upon Earth's surface that shadow can sweep a third of the way around the planet in just a few hours. The umbra takes the shape of a dark, slender cone. There are actually two types of shadows: the umbra is that part of the shadow where all sunlight is blocked out. On average, a total eclipse occurs somewhere on Earth about every 18 months. But the moon also happens to be about 400 times closer to Earth than the sun (the ratio varies as both orbits are elliptical), and as a result, when the orbital planes intersect and the distances align favorably, the new moon can appear to completely blot out the disk of the sun. The sun's 864,000-mile diameter is fully 400 times greater than that of our puny moon, which measures just about 2,160 miles. Princess Principal is available on Amazon Prime Video.Total solar eclipses are a happy accident of nature. Princess Principal leans away from the supernatural and hard into the steampunk aspects of Victorian Age stories, but the strong relationships between the girls and the fast-paced and thrilling spy action make Princess Principal a title that deserves to be on your watch list. Their goal is to replace the Queen’s granddaughter, Princess Charlotte, with a doppelganger named Ange - the twist is that Charlotte is fully on board with this plan and her close relationship with Ange is the main focus of the tale.
Set in an alternate universe of Victorian England, where the rich and poor are literally separated by a wall, the show stars a group of young students of a royal finishing school for girls who are actually soldiers in a war of spies between the autocratic Kingdom and the disadvantaged Commonwealth. Take Shadows House, add a dash of James Bond and girls’ boarding school stories and shake it up well and you might get something very like Princess Principal. Emilico, Kate, and their friends begin to grow a spirit of revolution between them, but their power remains limited and the mysteries and dangers of Shadows House loom ever larger. Although Kate and Emilico quickly grow to trust and value each other, other Dolls are treated with less kindness, slowly being trained to relinquish their individuality until only the Shadow remains. Therefore, each relies on their Living Doll in order to interact with the world. Kate and her fellow nobility are Shadows: people who constantly emit soot from their bodies, and who consequently appear completely black and faceless. In the first season, we are introduced to cheerful and kindhearted Emilico, who has just been assigned as a special personal servant known as a Living Doll to the highborn girl Kate. Loosely based on the manga of the same name, Shadows House has aspects of fairy tale, allegory, and Victorian gothic drama in the mix. Now Season 2 is coming down the pike, giving viewers another chance to discover the many mysteries of this new series. Shadows House is one of the hidden gems of the 2021 anime season, a delightfully spooky yet heartwarming ride through the world of the noble Shadows and their Living Dolls that gained a loyal following but not quite as much attention as it really deserved.
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