                   APOD: 2018 July 14 - A Nibble on the Sun

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                                 2018 July 14
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                             A Nibble on the Sun
  Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Padraic Koen [4] , Adelaide, South Australia

Explanation: The smallest of the three partial solar eclipses during 2018 [5]
was just yesterday, Friday, July 13. It was mostly visible [6] over the open
ocean between Australia and Antarctica. Still, this video frame of a tiny
nibble on the Sun [7] was captured through a hydrogen-alpha filter from Port
Elliott, South Australia, during the maximum eclipse visible from that
location. There, the New Moon covered about 0.16 percent of the solar disk.
The greatest eclipse, about one-third of the Sun's diameter blocked by the New
Moon, could be seen from East Antarctica near Peterson Bank, where the local
emperor penguin colony [8]  likely had the best view. During this prolific
eclipse season [9] , the coming Full Moon will bring a total lunar eclipse on
July 27, followed by yet another partial solar eclipse at the next New Moon on
August 11.

                Tomorrow's picture: rings around the ring [10]

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