by APOD Robot » Mon May 06, 2024 4:05 am
A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring
Explanation: This is how the Sun disappeared from the daytime sky last month. The
featured time-lapse video was created from stills taken from
Mountain View,
Arkansas,
USA on 2024 April 8. First, a small sliver of a normally
spotted Sun went strangely dark. Within a few minutes, much of the background
Sun was hidden behind the advancing foreground
Moon. Within an hour, the only rays from the Sun
passing the Moon appeared like a
diamond ring. During totality, most of the
surrounding sky went dark, making the bright
pink prominences around the Sun's edge stand out, and making the
amazing corona appear to spread into the surrounding sky. The central view of the
corona shows an accumulation of frames taken during complete totality. As the video ends, just a few minutes later,
another diamond ring appeared -- this time on the
other side of the Moon. Within the next hour, the sky
returned to normal.
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