In the full trailer of the Roland Emmerich doomsday movie 2012, a solar eclipse effect is shown. Lately, the image of the total solar eclipse has been used by movie-making people in connection with the ancient Mayan civilization. Mel Gibson's Apocalypto is one example where a total solar eclipse plays a pivotal role in one of the movie's turning points.
So now we have 2012, which is based on the belief that the end of the world is to occur near the end of that year because it's also the time when the Mayan calendar ends. Now, we may have our personal beliefs and some of you may actually believe this or at least feel apprehension regarding it - which isn't really bad when it comes to getting publicity for the movie, it's still all a matter of speculation and a big waiting game, similar to the millennium bug issue. But we digress. It's the eclipse effect that you should pay attention to in this post.
If you watch the 2012 trailer, you might not notice anything wrong with the eclipse shown, and even astronomers may take a second look. But if you notice the way the moon creeps over the sun's face (from left to right, in the trailer) you'll see that it has a concave disk. It should really appear convex and form a circle that slowly covers the sun. The "flaring" that results in the concave shape that makes the dark disk of the moon looking like a bitten cookie only happens just before totality.Note that this flaring is really the result of overexposure from the bright light of the exposed part of the sun not covered yet by the moon. The encroaching lunar disk should really look like in this next couple of images as it moves to cover the sun. But note that the exposures in these photographs were managed. As solar eclipse footages go, the one shown in the trailer is actually sound, and the concave shape may just be considered an unavoidable and natural visual effect. Still, the 2012 trailer footage makes it appear that it's the sun the moving away to reveal the moon instead of the other way around. Catch the trailer of 2012 here.
2012 is directed by Roland Emmerich, who also gave us Independence Day, Stargate, The Day After Tomorrow, and 10,000 B.C. It stars John Cusack and Amanda Peet.Click here to know why the splitting-ceiling effect of the destruction of Sistine Chapel in 2012 could have been done with more care.
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They may have exaggerated it a bit for the effect, but that's the way a real solar eclipse looks.
http://spaceweather.com/eclipses/22jul09/Donald-Gardner4.jpg
Thank you for your comment. Exaggerated, yes. The "ring" effect takes place only when the eclipse nears totality. Consider the solar eclipse photos in the link. It shows the disk of the moon as it slowly progresses across the face of the sun.
http://www.lefevre.darkhorizons.org/ccdimaging/eclipse_seq.jpg
The eclipse will be planet X or "Nimrod" that covers the sun NOT the moon due to the object that covers the sun has a chunk missing out of one side. I suspect planet x in the movie will be sending down pieces of it to create the mega tidal waves. Depending on wheither the Earth survives or not will depend on "Nimrod" NOT hitting the Earth or hiting it. Check out IHS web site about the above--IHS is tied in with the movie.
Remember: You heard it first here from Craig--sorry Charly for taking your phrase.
And, why should anyone care about how real or fake the solar eclipse looks in 2012? What is the point in this?
who cares?
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