    APOD: 2017 September 12 - A Total Solar Eclipse Close Up in Real Time

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                              2017 September 12
                  A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time
        Video Credit & Copyright: Jun Ho Oh (KAIST [2] , HuboLab [3] );
              Music: Flowing Air [4]  by Mattia Vlad Morleo [5]

Explanation: How would you feel if the Sun disappeared? Many eclipse watchers
across the USA [6]  surprised themselves with the awe that they felt and the
exclamations that they made as the Sun momentarily disappeared behind the
Moon. Perhaps expecting just a brief moment of dusk, the spectacle of
unusually rapid darkness, breathtakingly bright glowing beads [7]  around the
Moon's edge, shockingly pink solar prominences [8] , and a strangely detailed
corona [9]  stretching across the sky caught many a curmudgeon by [10]
surprise [11] . Many of these attributes were captured [12]  in the featured
real-time, three-minute video [13] of last month's total solar eclipse [14] .
The video frames [15]  were acquired in Warm Springs [16] , Oregon [17] with
equipment specifically designed by Jun Ho Oh to track a close-up of the Sun's
periphery during eclipse. As the video ends, the Sun [18] is seen being reborn
on the other side of the Moon [19]  from where it departed.

                    Tomorrow's picture: in a cat's paw [20]

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  [11]
http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2017/08/30/
My-2017-Total-Solar-Eclipse.html
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  [14] https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/
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