I have recently seen a solar eclipse from earth, when the sun was obscured by the airless moon. <http://capturethelight.zenfolio.com/eclipsetrip> The dark shadow of the moon was sharp. The sun's corona spread wide across the starry sky.

Now imagine you are the moon, looking at *this* solar eclipse -- when the earth moves in front of the sun. As the earth moves across the sun, the thin atmospheric skin of the earth would glow bright red: sunset light or sunrise light, or midnight twilight near the poles. This reddish sunrise/sunset is what colors our moon here.

I would love to see a view of this eclipse from the moon. Perhaps when we (or a robot) visit the moon again, we can leave a camera pointing toward earth. It would be nice to see our blue marble rotating beneath the moon, and spectacular during an eclipse. Leave a little space around the earth, to see the stars passing by, and the dark void of space.

And while we're at it, let's leave other camera(s) looking at the moon itself, watching the long slow sunrise, mid-day, sunset, then the night -- taking 28 of our earth days to complete one moon-day. Webcams to treasure.

This is low light photography of a moving target... You can probably find better images on the web: this view could be seen from half the earth.