Wedding photography gear #1: A mid to high-end DSLR. I cringe to write that a Canon Rebel or Nikon D3100 would not be suitable for a wedding. I know perfectly well that I could shoot a wedding with those cameras without any problem.
While other types of Lunar Eclipses can be viewed in wide regions of the earth the part of the eclipse that is Total is viewable is a much smaller region. The same can be said for the duration of the Eclipse.
Because the moon has to be between the earth and the sun, a solar eclipse can only occur at new moon. It can only be seen at the specific spot where the moon casts a shadow on the earth. To the right, a series of images captures a solar eclipse over Monument Valley (from APOD, Tunc Teze.