Disclaimer : These photos do no justice to the spectacle created by the Moon blotting out the late morning Sun.
It started innocently enough as a small notch formed on the upper right edge of the Sun.
The bite got bigger....
....until our local star showed a fat crescent.
It progress until only a sliver remained
After the last ray of sun shined through a deep crater on the Moon's rim creating a diamond ring effect(not pictured), the elusive solar corona appeared. A close look at the photo below reveals a red promenience at the same position that the moon's transit started.
A longer exposure shows the star Regulus (circled) to the lower left of the eclipsed Sun.
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He had to stay home because he couldn't pass the eclipse safety test.
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Wow, what a magnificent star our world revolves around (pictured last)
ReplyDeleteYeah and you'd have to wonder what that magnificent star's world revolves around.
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