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                                2021 June 12

                            Eclipse on the Water
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Elliot Severn

   Explanation: Eclipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an
   eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can
   nearly align. Then the full and new phases of the Moon separated by
   just over 14 days create a lunar and a solar eclipse. Often partial
   eclipses are part of any eclipse season. But sometimes the alignment at
   both new moon and full moon phases during a single eclipse season is
   close enough to produce a pair of both total (or a total and an
   annular) lunar and solar eclipses. For this eclipse season, the New
   Moon following the Full Moon's total lunar eclipse on May 26 did
   produce an annular solar eclipse along its northerly shadow track. That
   eclipse is seen here in a partially eclipsed sunrise on June 10,
   photographed from a fishing pier in Stratford, Connecticut in the
   northeastern US.

           Notable images submitted to APOD: June 10 solar eclipse
                    Tomorrow's picture: Supercell Sunday
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