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Credit & Copyright: Stephen Mudge
Explanation:
In skies over Brisbane at the southeastern corner
of Queensland, Australia,
Planet Earth, the Sun and New Moon set
together on April 29.
There the celestial line-up, the first solar
eclipse of 2014,
was seen as a
partial solar eclipse.
This dramatic composite is a digital stack of images taken
about 5 minutes apart with telephoto lens and solar filter.
It follows the eclipse in progress, approaching a western horizon
where crepuscular rays from
cloud banks in silhouette joined the silhouetted Moon.
From Brisbane, the maximum eclipse phase with the
Moon covering about 25% of the Sun occurred
just after sunset.
Only from a remote spot on the continent of Antarctica was it
even possible to see the eclipse in its brief annular phase,
the entire dark lunar disk surrounded by a thin,
bright ring of fire.
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