Posted on 09/13/2015 4:59:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery -- it was behind the Moon. Featured here is one of the more interesting images taken of a partial solar eclipse that occurred in 2012, capturing a temporarily crescent Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill. The image was taken about 20 miles west of Sundown, Texas, USA, just after the ring of fire effect was broken by the Moon moving away from the center of the Sun. Today a new partial solar eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Earth. Unfortunately for people who live in Texas, today's eclipse can only be seen from southern Africa and Antarctica.
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[Credit and Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake]
I watched it that day through the lens of a welding hood
Watched the transit of venus through a welding mask in 2012 until clouds rolled in. Caught the first minute or 2. Cool.
Ditto... just I went to the sand dunes south of Jal, NM just off Highway 18 to watch it set... I tried to photograph with my phone, but the results were rather disappointing.
That’s a good way to do it.
Nice one!
Thanks. I gotta go check out the HTML tips though, need to find out how to deal with pictures, spacing and such. That was not supposed to be in the middle of the text and off to the side like that...I had it well below all the text.
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