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                               2023 October 05

                      Ring of Fire over Monument Valley
                 Image Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel (TWAN)

   Explanation: Tracking along a narrow path, the shadow of a new moon
   will race across North, Central, and South America, on October 14. When
   viewed from the shadow path the apparent size of the lunar disk will
   not quite completely cover the Sun though. Instead, the moon in
   silhouette will appear during the minutes of totality surrounded by a
   fiery ring, an annular solar eclipse more dramatically known as a ring
   of fire eclipse. This striking time lapse sequence from May of 2012
   illustrates the stages of a ring of fire eclipse. From before eclipse
   start until sunset, they are seen over the iconic buttes of planet
   Earth's Monument Valley. Remarkably, the October 14 ring of fire
   eclipse will also be visible over Monument Valley, beginning after
   sunrise in the eastern sky.

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