NASA's SDO Catches a Double Photobomb

[Anomalocaris]

On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was photobombed not once, but twice. Just as the moon came into SDO’s field of view on a path to cross the sun, Earth entered the picture, blocking SDO’s view completely. When SDO's view of the sun emerged from Earth’s shadow, the moon was just completing its journey across the sun’s face.

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[ChrLzs]

That's too cool - in fact the only thing cooler is the word for it (my favorite word, btw) - that was quite a SYZYGY!!!!

[Waspie_Dwarf]

SDO wasn't the only spacecraft to observe a solar eclipse from orbit, ESA's Proba-2 was also in the right place at the right time.

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Proba-2 partial eclipses

ESA’s Earth-orbiting Proba-2 satellite observed three partial solar eclipses on the morning of 13 September 2015 along with an additional passage of the Moon close to the edge of the Sun. The image was taken with Proba-2’s SWAP imager, which views the solar disc at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths to capture the turbulent surface of the Sun and its swirling corona, which can clearly be seen in between eclipses in this movie. The Sun’s rotation can also be seen.

Time is shown in GMT

Credit: ESA/ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium

Source: ESA - YouTube Channel