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Credit & Copyright: Somak Raychaudhury
(Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics)
Explanation:
Want to watch a solar eclipse safely?
Try looking down
instead of up, though you might
discover you have a plethora of images to choose from.
For example, during the
June
21st solar eclipse
this confusing display appeared
under a shady bamboo grove in Pune, India.
Small gaps between close knit leaves on the tall plants
effectively created a network of randomly placed pinholes.
Each one projected a separate image of the eclipsed Sun.
The snapshot was taken close to the time of maximum eclipse in Pune
when the Moon covered about 60 percent of the Sun's diameter.
But an annular eclipse, the Moon in silhouette
completely surrounded by a bright solar disk at maximum,
could be seen along a narrow path
where
the Moon's dark shadow
crossed central Africa, south Asia, and China.
Gallery: Notable
images
of the Annular Solar Eclipse of 2020 June
submitted to APOD
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