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January 26, 2009

"Annular" eclipse photos show "ring of fire"

NASA annular eclipse Across the Indian Ocean today, from South Africa to Indonesia, the sun and moon put on a spectacular display. It was an "annular eclipse" of the sun, where the moon is too far from the Earth to completely cover the sun's disk. That leaves a blazing "ring of fire" shining around the moon as it passes in front of the sun from Earth's perspective. Here's more.

Farther outside the path of totality it looked like a bizarre crescent sun. Sunlight filtered through leafy trees left thousands of little crescents projected onto the ground and buildings. Here's a remarkable gallery of photos from today's eclipse.

Cue Johnny Cash.

Posted by Frank Roylance at 6:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Sky Watching

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Wow these are amazing photos!

Posted by: Janet Selway | January 27, 2009 10:41 AM

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About Frank Roylance

Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.

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