Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2023 October 05
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                      Ring of Fire over Monument Valley
            Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Tunc Tezel ([5]TWAN)

   Explanation: [6]Tracking along a narrow path, the shadow of a [7]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
   [8]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 [9]Monument Valley. Remarkably, the October 14 ring of
   fire eclipse will also be visible over Monument Valley, beginning after
   [10]sunrise in the eastern sky.

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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2310/MoValleyEclipse.jpg
   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. http://www.twanight.org/tezel
   5. http://www.twanight.org/
   6. https://earthsky.org/sun/annular-solar-eclipse-october-14-2023/
   7. https://science.nasa.gov/moon/
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090125.html
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221225.html
  10. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/@5543404?iso=20231014
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  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  20. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=231005
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231006.html
  22. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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  24. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
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