by APOD Robot » Mon Jun 15, 2020 4:05 am
A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse
Explanation: What's rising above the horizon behind those clouds? It's the Sun. Most sunrises don't look like this, though, because most sunrises don't include the Moon. In the early morning of 2013 May 10, however, from
Western Australia, the Moon was between the Earth and the rising
Sun. At times, it would be hard for the
uninformed to understand what was happening. In an
annular eclipse, the Moon is too far from the
Earth to block the entire Sun, and at most leaves a
ring of fire where sunlight pours out around every edge of the Moon. The
featured time-lapse video also recorded the eclipse through the high refraction of the Earth's atmosphere just above the horizon, making the
unusual rising Sun and Moon appear also
flattened. As the video continues on, the Sun continues to rise, and the Sun and Moon begin to separate. This weekend, a new
annular solar eclipse will occur, visible from central Africa, the
Arabian Peninsula, and a narrow band across Asia, with much of
Earth's Eastern hemisphere being able to see a
partial solar eclipse.
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