                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2024 March 3

                 A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time
            Video Credit & Copyright: Jun Ho Oh (KAIST, HuboLab);
                  Music: Flowing Air by Mattia Vlad Morleo

   Explanation: How would you feel if the Sun disappeared? Many eclipse
   watchers across the USA surprised themselves in 2017 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 around the Moon's edge, shockingly pink solar
   prominences, and a strangely detailed corona stretching across the sky
   caught many a curmudgeon by surprise. Many of these attributes were
   captured in the featured real-time, three-minute video of 2017's total
   solar eclipse. The video frames were acquired in Warm Springs, Oregon
   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 is
   seen being reborn on the other side of the Moon from where it departed.
   Next month, on April 8th, a new total solar eclipse will be visible in
   a thin band across North America.

                     Tomorrow's picture: strange horizon
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