By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-03 20:00:28 | Updated at 2024-10-18 20:24:17
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Eclipse at Sunrise
NASA ^ | 3 Oct, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night)
Posted on 10/03/2024 12:26:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, crossing land near the southern tip of South America, and ending in the southern Atlantic. The dramatic total annular eclipse phase is known to some as a ring of fire. Still, a partial eclipse of the Sun was experienced over a wide region. Captured at one of its earliest moments, October's eclipsed Sun is seen just above the clouds near sunrise in this snapshot. The partially eclipsed solar disk is close to the maximum eclipse as seen from Mauna Kea Observatory Visitor Center, Island of Hawaii, planet Earth.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 10/03/2024 12:26:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/03/2024 12:26:48 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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3 posted on 10/03/2024 12:27:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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That’s a cradle belonging to the Ahkansee cloud dwellers.
Their babies are born blind and will remain so unless surrounded by intense light.
Very rare photo indeed.
4 posted on 10/03/2024 12:30:38 PM PDT by DannyTN
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That is almost “trick” photography.
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