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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Solar Eclipse Quilt
NASA ^ | November 13, 2012 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 11/13/2012 3:34:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Explanation: Some people are so inspired by solar eclipses that they quilt. Pictured above is a resulting textile from one such inspiration. 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. Today, however, a full total solar eclipse will occur, although it will only be visible to eclipse chasers and those who live in a thin swath of Australia. 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. Just before -- and just after -- totality occurs, sunlight may stream between mountains on the Moon's edge creating a diamond ring effect. The next total eclipse of the Sun will occur in November 2013.

November 13, 2012

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; science; solareclipse
[Credit & Copyright: Sherry Winkelman (CXC)]

1 posted on 11/13/2012 3:34:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Nice quilt! I love quilts! And hey! Not an APoD!

2 posted on 11/13/2012 3:35:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
Nice quilt! I love quilts! And hey! Not an APoD!

3 posted on 11/13/2012 3:35:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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That double ping *was* my doing, I had pinged the wrong list, so I quick plastered in the right one.


4 posted on 11/13/2012 3:36:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
Check out the background image from the Bing Search home page.

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5 posted on 11/13/2012 3:45:17 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SunkenCiv

New design U-Haul moving blanket. As vast as the universe is
I doubt there is another one like it.


6 posted on 11/13/2012 3:51:23 AM PST by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: cripplecreek

Now that’s an Astronomy Picture of the Day.


7 posted on 11/13/2012 3:53:20 AM PST by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: cripplecreek

There’s a keeper!


8 posted on 11/13/2012 4:41:03 AM PST by poobear (Socialism, in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: SunkenCiv; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
Some people are so inspired by solar eclipses that they quilt.

Kind of a blanket statement.

9 posted on 11/13/2012 7:00:46 AM PST by martin_fierro (punumbra)
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To: martin_fierro; mikrofon

Quilters never weave, and weavers never quilt.


10 posted on 11/13/2012 7:28:53 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Not quilty!)
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To: martin_fierro; SunkenCiv; Charles Henrickson
Chasing Southern Hemisphere eclipses is hard when you're pretty much a ER
11 posted on 11/13/2012 3:47:13 PM PST by mikrofon (Ecliptic Taste in Art)
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