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Credit & Copyright: Vincent Bouchama
Explanation:
From northern
Patagonia,
morning skies were clear and blue on Sunday, February 26.
This sweeping composite
scene, overlooking Hermoso Valle, Facundo, Chubut, Argentina,
follows the Sun after sunrise, capturing an
annular solar eclipse.
Created from a series of exposures at three minute intervals,
it shows the year's first
solar
eclipse beginning well above the distant eastern horizon.
An exposure close to mid-eclipse recorded the expected
ring of fire,
the silhouette of the New Moon only slightly too small to cover
the bright Sun.
At that location
on planet Earth,
the annular phase of the eclipse lasted a brief 45 seconds.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: annular solar eclipse
Publications with words: annular solar eclipse
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