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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World
NASA ^ | 31 Mar, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) ; Acknowled

Posted on 03/31/2024 2:14:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: In late 2021 there was a total solar eclipse visible only at the end of the Earth. To capture the unusual phenomenon, airplanes took flight below the clouded seascape of Southern Ocean. The featured image shows one relatively spectacular capture where the bright spot is the outer corona of the Sun and the eclipsing Moon is seen as the dark spot in the center. A wing and engine of the airplane are visible across the left and bottom of the image, while another airplane observing the eclipse is visible on the far left. The dark area of the sky surrounding the eclipsed Sun is called a shadow cone. It is dark because you are looking down a long corridor of air shadowed by the Moon. A careful inspection of the eclipsed Sun will reveal the planet Mercury just to the right. You won't have to travel to the end of the Earth to see the next total solar eclipse. The total eclipse path will cross North America on 2024 April 8, just over one week from today.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 03/31/2024 2:14:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

2 posted on 03/31/2024 2:15:04 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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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 03/31/2024 2:16:01 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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To: MtnClimber

Nice


4 posted on 03/31/2024 2:16:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah - I like how you can see the edges of the eclipse shadow.

Very Kewl!


5 posted on 03/31/2024 2:32:47 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: MtnClimber

In younger days, I was a solar eclipse chaser and was.present in Nouakchott, Mauritania on June 30, 1973 for the longest solar eclipse in my lifetime. More recently, I was in Montana for the total eclipse in 2017.

Over the years, I’ve seen many solar elipses. This picture ranks up there with the best of them. Happy Easter, and God bless you for posting.


6 posted on 03/31/2024 4:47:32 PM PDT by eastsider
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“More recently, I was in Montana for the total eclipse in 2017.”


It just passed through a small swath of Montana and that is a very rough region - you must be devoted!

I live in Montana and chose to watch it in Casper, WY.


7 posted on 04/01/2024 5:16:05 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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