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Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
Explanation:
The road to the high mountaintop
La Silla
Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert also led in to
the path of July 2nd's total solar eclipse.
Recorded at regular intervals before and after the total eclipse phase,
the frames in this composite sequence include the moment
the Moon's dark
shadow fell across some of planet Earth's advanced large telescopes.
The dreamlike view looks west toward the setting Sun and
the approaching
Moon shadow.
In fact La Silla was a little north of the shadow track's center line,
so the region's stunning, clear skies are slightly brighter
to the north (right) in the scene.
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