Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2023 April 21
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                    Solar Eclipse from Western Australia
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Gwenaël Blanck

   Explanation: [5]Along a narrow path that mostly avoided landfall, the
   shadow of the New Moon raced across planet Earth's southern hemisphere
   on April 20 to create a rare annular-total or [6]hybrid solar eclipse.
   A mere 62 seconds of totality could be seen though, when the dark
   central lunar shadow just grazed the North West Cape, a peninsula in
   western Australia. From top to bottom these panels capture the
   beginning, middle, and end of that fleeting [7]total eclipse phase. At
   start and finish, solar prominences and beads of sunlight stream past
   the lunar limb. At mid-eclipse the [8]central frame reveals the sight
   only easily visible during totality and most treasured by eclipse
   chasers, the [9]magnificent corona of the active Sun. [10]Of course
   eclipses tend to come in pairs. On May 5, the next Full Moon will just
   miss the dark inner part of Earth's shadow in a penumbral lunar
   eclipse.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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    Authors & editors: [22]Robert Nemiroff ([23]MTU) & [24]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([25]UMCP)
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                           & [32]Michigan Tech. U.

References

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   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. https://www.instagram.com/gwen.blanck/
   5. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/hybrid-solar-eclipse-april-20-2023/
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131103.html
   7. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html
   8. https://www.instagram.com/p/CrP79nCsfGi/
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190701.html
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210612.html
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  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  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=230421
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