Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Solar Eclipse Quilt . ... The 38x38 inch quilt offers impressions of a total annular eclipse , when the Moon is too far from the Earth to cover the entire Sun, witnessed in Spain in October of 2005. ... For a few minutes, those near the center of the eclipse path will see the entire Sun blocked by the Moon, causing the day to become unusually dark . ... The next total eclipse of the Sun will occur in November 2013 . ... Publications with keywords: solar eclipse . ...