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Credit & Copyright: Colleen Pinski
Explanation:
What is this person doing?
In 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun was visible over a
narrow path that crossed the northern Pacific Ocean and several western US states.
In an annular solar
eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to
block out the entire Sun, leaving the Sun
peeking
out over the Moon's disk in a
ring of fire.
To capture this
unusual solar event, an industrious photographer drove from
Arizona to
New Mexico
to find just the right vista.
After setting up and just as the
eclipsed Sun was setting over a ridge about 0.5 kilometers
away, a person unknowingly walked right into the shot.
Although grateful for the unexpected human element, the photographer
never learned the identity of the
silhouetted interloper.
It appears likely, though, that the person is holding a circular
device
that would enable them to get their own view of the eclipse.
The shot
was taken at sunset on 2012 May 20 at 7:36 pm local time from
a
park near
Albuquerque,
New Mexico, USA.
Tomorrow
another annular solar eclipse will
become visible, this time along a thin path starting in
Saudi Arabia
and going through southern
India,
Singapore, and
Guam.
However, almost
all of Asia
with a clear sky will be able to see, tomorrow, at the least, a
partial solar eclipse.
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Publications with keywords: annular solar eclipse
Publications with words: annular solar eclipse
See also:
- APOD: 2023 November 1 Á Annular Solar Eclipse over Utah
- A Sunrise at Sunset Point
- APOD: 2023 October 16 Á Eclipse Rings
- Ring of Fire over Monument Valley
- APOD: 2023 October 1 Á A Desert Eclipse
- APOD: 2023 September 24 Á A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse
- APOD: 2023 September 17 Á Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse