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Credit & Copyright: Zev Hoover,
Christian Lockwood, and Zoe Chakoian
Explanation:
On June 10 a New Moon
passed in front of the Sun.
In silhouette only two days after
reaching apogee,
the most distant point in its elliptical orbit,
the Moon's small apparent size helped create an annular solar eclipse.
The brief but spectacular annular phase of the eclipse
shows a bright solar disk as a ring of fire
when viewed along its narrow, northerly shadow track across planet
Earth.
Cloudy early morning skies along the US east coast held
gorgeous
views of a partially eclipsed Sun
though.
Rising together Moon and Sun are
captured in a sequence of consecutive frames near maximum eclipse
in this digital composite, seen from Quincy Beach south of
Boston, Massachusetts.
The
serendipitous sequence
follows the undulating path of
a bird in flight joining the Moon in silhouette with the rising Sun.
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