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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Annular Eclipse over Patagonia
NASA ^ | 8 Oct, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Alexis Trigo

Posted on 10/08/2024 12:33:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Can you find the Sun? OK, but can you explain why there’s a big dark spot in the center? The spot is the Moon, and the impressive alignment shown, where the Moon lines up inside the Sun, is called an annular solar eclipse. Such an eclipse occurred just last week and was visible from a thin swath mostly in Earth's southern hemisphere. The featured image was captured from Patagonia, Chile. When the Moon is significantly closer to the Earth and it aligns with the Sun, a total solar eclipse is then visible from parts of the Earth. Annular eclipses are slightly more common than total eclipses, but as the Moon moves slowly away from the Earth, before a billion more years, the Moon's orbit will no longer bring it close enough for a total solar eclipse to be seen from anywhere on Earth.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 10/08/2024 12:33:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/08/2024 12:33:35 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 10/08/2024 12:34:13 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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I can’t see the eclipse for the sun!.................


4 posted on 10/08/2024 12:35:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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That’s an upside down flying catfish.
He’s huge.
He managed to get off my hook.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 12:45:59 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Just beautiful.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 12:49:21 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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7 posted on 10/08/2024 1:05:12 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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We need to get rid of the sun.....Glowbal Wurming.


8 posted on 10/08/2024 1:08:14 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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That’s an upside down flying catfish.

That's because it's on the bottom of the world ;)

9 posted on 10/08/2024 1:11:48 PM PDT by P8riot (You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know Him as a necessity.)
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Sincerely hoping the HAARP-sters don’t make it over here.l


10 posted on 10/08/2024 1:20:55 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
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That is pretty cool.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 3:11:52 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Thanks MtnClimber!

Alan Parsons Project-Eye In The Sky:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yset_ff_hp_cnewtab&p=you+tube+Song-I+am+the+eye+in+thh&type=default#id=2&vid=8985388e436221c3ab0ca6f314aed4f4&action=click


12 posted on 10/08/2024 7:44:29 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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Alan Parsons Project-Eye In The Sky:

That is a great song, especially Sirius/Eye in the Sky.

13 posted on 10/09/2024 4:43:49 AM 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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