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Credit & Copyright: Padraic Koen,
Adelaide, South Australia
Explanation:
The smallest of the three partial solar
eclipses
during 2018 was just yesterday, Friday, July 13.
It was mostly visible
over the open ocean between Australia and Antarctica.
Still, this video frame of a tiny
nibble
on the Sun
was captured through a hydrogen-alpha filter from Port Elliott,
South Australia, during the maximum eclipse visible from that location.
There, the New Moon covered about 0.16 percent of the solar disk.
The greatest eclipse, about one-third of the Sun's diameter
blocked by the New Moon, could be seen from East Antarctica
near Peterson Bank, where the local
emperor
penguin colony likely had the best view.
During this
prolific eclipse season,
the coming Full Moon will
bring a total lunar eclipse on July 27, followed by yet another partial
solar eclipse at the next New Moon on August 11.
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