February 13


It seems that nothing particularly important has happened that day yet.
So maybe it's time for some space art.


Aspect of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, as it would appear as seen from the Moon. A chromolithograph from the book The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite by James Nasmyth and James Carpenter, 1874, Plate XXII. As the authors wrote: "We have endeavoured to give a pictorial realization of this phenomenon and the effect of the eclipse upon lunar landscape, but such a picture cannot but fall very, very far short of the reality."
 
   James Nasmyth (1807–1890) was a Scottish engineer, artist and amateur astronomer. He was a co-author of the book The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, first published in 1874. 
Credit: James Nasmyth/The Public Domain Review

 
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