Unlike lunar eclipses, solar eclipses require eye protection as the sun will \u201cat no point\u201d be fully blocked by the moon, and solar viewing glasses were needed for anyone wishing to safely view this morning\u2019s event. <\/p>\n
Anyone who wanted to photograph the eclipse was advised to use solar filter to cover the lens of their camera before shooting to stop permanent damage being done to the sensor in the camera.<\/p>\n
Stardome planned to hold a free viewing party on top of One Tree Hill in Auckland, but overcast skies meant the eclipse could not be seen. <\/p>\n
MetService released what this morning\u2019s solar eclipse looked like from space through a JMA satellite positioned 36,000km above Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n
The partial solar eclipse produced a shadow as the moon passed over the sun, which was visible on the clouds as a dark, brownish hue. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the first time this month New Zealand has been treated to an eclipse. <\/p>\n
On September 8, a lunar eclipse begun at 3.30am as the moon entered Earth\u2019s penumbra \u2013 or outer shadow.<\/p>\n
By 5.30am a total eclipse appeared, and the moon was shadowed entirely by Earth as it reflected a coppery red hue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike lunar eclipses, solar eclipses require eye protection as the sun will \u201cat no point\u201d be fully blocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2840,33304,2245,5676,2842,33305,1304,117,111,139,69,25018,384,147,9877,7754,4166,392,4497,9423,165,1961,25824,686,80],"class_list":["post-35851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-across","tag-celestial","tag-early","tag-eclipse","tag-experienced","tag-illuminated","tag-morning","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-partial","tag-people","tag-science","tag-skies","tag-skywatchers","tag-solar","tag-space","tag-start","tag-stuns","tag-their","tag-this","tag-throughout","tag-week","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}