Solar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse
Image information
Original title	Sun's Corona During a Total Eclipse
Licensed from	Corbis
Originates from	Starlight Image Agency
Photographer	Roger Ressmeyer
Taken	July 11, 1991 (presumed)
Location	Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii, USA
License type	Rights-managed (no longer commercially available)
Windows information
Software	Windows 2000; Windows Me
Type	Wallpaper
Resolution	800x600
File type	JPEG (.jpg)

Solar Eclipse, originally known as Sun's Corona During a Total Eclipse, is a wallpaper included in Windows 2000 and Me, licensed from Corbis. It was taken by Roger Ressmeyer, who also took Windows XP's Radiance and Stonehenge. It depicts the sun's corona during a solar eclipse at Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii, USA. While the original image was in color, the version in 2000 and Me is greyscale. It was transferred to Getty Images when VCG acquired Corbis in 2016, but became a restricted asset in early 2020 when Getty discontinued rights-managed licensing in favor of royalty free licensing; it was not converted to royalty free, so it was taken down in late 2020.