Astronomy Picture of the Day - Eclipse on the Water

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 12 Jun, 2021 | Image Credit & Copyright: Elliot Severn

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the full and new phases of the Moon separated by just over 14 days create a lunar and a solar eclipse. Often partial eclipses are part of any eclipse season. But sometimes the alignment at both new moon and full moon phases during a single eclipse season is close enough to produce a pair of both total (or a total and an annular) lunar and solar eclipses. For this eclipse season, the New Moon following the Full Moon's total lunar eclipse on May 26 did produce an annular solar eclipse along its northerly shadow track. That eclipse is seen here in a partially eclipsed sunrise on June 10, photographed from a fishing pier in Stratford, Connecticut in the northeastern US.

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[MtnClimber]

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[EEGator]

That is pretty.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Diana in Wisconsin]

They’re not foolin’ me; that’s the Islamic Bat Signal! ;)

Beau got up extra early to view it; the very second he started to see it, the sun went behind a cloud!

Ya can’t win these days for losin’! ;)

[rfp1234]

Yup, the Horned Sun.

[thinden]

Here’s a neat shot of the ring of fire eclipse up thread

[little jeremiah]

I’ve never seen a ring of fire eclipse, just a couple of regular ones and a moon. I like them!

[hanamizu]

Beau got up extra early to view it; the very second he started to see it, the sun went behind a cloud!

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Wife and I went to Hawaii in ‘91 (Jeez, time flies—30 years). Camped out Mauna Kea. Clear skies. As the solar disk became covered, clouds started rolling in, by the time of totality 100% clouds.

Made up for it in 2017, had to travel 10 yards to front lawn to watch. 2024 will go overhead here as well.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. He wasn’t a Happy Camper! ;)

[BatGuano]

“that’s the Islamic Bat Signal! ;)”
You are on to something there. Keep up the good work!
Bat ;)

[jmacusa]

‘’Sunshine on the water looks so lovely....’’ John Denver sure got that one right.