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Wow! Cool picture I have never seen anything like that

Thanks Chris; thanks bystander; thanks Beyond! :) That's a neat picture too! 8-)

Are those curved lines on the top and bottom of the image the magnetic field's effect on the corona?

Hi:
Great technique and great photography.
Regards
Cesar

[quote="Chris Peterson"]The link in the APOD caption at the top of this discussion is incorrect. There is a space in the middle that shouldn't be there, so the necessary parameters are not being passed to the simulator. [/quote]
[i]fixed[/i] Thanks, Chris!

[quote="orin stepanek"]I clicked on the link full earth and got a grey blank! :?[/quote]
The link in the APOD caption at the top of this discussion is incorrect. There is a space in the middle that shouldn't be there, so the necessary parameters are not being passed to the simulator. Either use the link in the original APOD, or you can [url=http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?tbody=399&vbody=301&month=7&day=11&year=2010&hour=19&minute=00&rfov=45&fovmul=-1&bfov=30&porbs=1&showsc=1]click here[/url].

[quote="orin stepanek"]I clicked on the link full earth and got a grey blank! :?[/quote]

Orin, go back to the original Apod picture and then click on "full Earth". Sometimes the pictures do not carry over through the links.

New here. Hello all.

There is a cool video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR6wVyBLhdE&feature=player_embedded) of the eclipse as seen at sunset in Argentina.

This gorgeous image appeared with other eclipse pictures on the Observation Deck forum in [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=20221]this thread[/url].

I clicked on the link full earth and got a grey blank! :?

what caused the rings around the image ? i can see a pink hue then a thin green ring and a blue purple one beyond that.
Is this just a result of the photo or a feature of the corona?

[quote="Mikes"]Is that Mercury or Venus off to the left, or just some dust on the lens?[/quote]
Remember that that area is the most light sensitive part of the image and should observe many faint stars.

Mercury or Venus would have to be within less than a day of (a close) conjunction
... so much less than a 1% a priori probability of being that close.

Is it mercury or venus?
Is north at the top of the picture?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_21st_century
gives location and date/time of the eclipse: July 11, 2010 19:34:38 Total 05m 20s 19°42′S 121°54′W / 19.7°S 121.9°W

http://www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/planets.html
shows the position of the planets.

Is that Mercury or Venus off to the left, or just some dust on the lens?

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