Ring of Fire over Easter Island
Explanation:
The
second solar eclipse
of 2024 began in the Pacific.
On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from
west to east, with an
annular
eclipse visible
along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean,
making its only major landfall
near the southern tip of South America,
and then ending in the southern Atlantic.
The dramatic total annular eclipse phase
is known to some as a
ring of fire.
Also tracking across islands in the southern Pacific, the Moon's
antumbral shadow grazed Easter Island allowing
denizens to follow
all phases of the annular eclipse.
Framed by
palm tree leaves this clear island view
is a stack of two images, one taken with and one taken without
a solar filter near the
moment of the maximum annular phase.
The New Moon's
silhouette
appears just off center, though still
engulfed by the bright disk of the active Sun.
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.
