A Total Eclipse Over Africa
Explanation:
What's that dark spot on the Sun? It's the Moon.
Last month, on June 21, a
total solar eclipse
was visible in parts of
Africa.
In one of the most spectacular records of
this eclipse,
Cees Bassa captured the
setting Sun being
eclipsed in a series of multiple exposures from
Malambanyama,
Zambia.
All of the images were taken 20 minutes apart,
and all but the central image were taken though a dark
solar filter.
Without the filter, the central image features the
enormous flowing corona
that surrounds the
Sun.
The planet
Jupiter
can be seen superposed just to the left
of the next image after totality.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
