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Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel
(TWAN)
Explanation:
Tracking
along a narrow path, the shadow of a
new moon
will race across North, Central, and South America,
on October 14.
When viewed from the shadow path the apparent size of the
lunar disk will not quite completely cover the Sun though.
Instead, the moon in silhouette will appear during
the minutes of totality surrounded by a fiery ring,
an annular solar eclipse more dramatically known as a
ring of fire eclipse.
This striking time lapse sequence from May of 2012
illustrates the stages of a ring of fire eclipse.
From before eclipse start until sunset, they are seen over the iconic
buttes of planet Earth's
Monument Valley.
Remarkably, the October 14 ring of fire eclipse will also
be visible over Monument Valley, beginning after
sunrise in
the eastern sky.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: annular solar eclipse
Publications with words: annular solar eclipse
See also:
- Ring of Fire over Easter Island
- APOD: 2024 October 8 Á Annular Eclipse over Patagonia
- APOD: 2023 November 1 Á Annular Solar Eclipse over Utah
- A Sunrise at Sunset Point
- APOD: 2023 October 16 Á Eclipse Rings
- APOD: 2023 October 1 Á A Desert Eclipse
- APOD: 2023 September 24 Á A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse