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Annular Eclipse Over Myanmar

Explanation: A hole crossed the Sun for a few minutes this month, as seen across a thin swath of planet Earth. The event on January 15 was actually an annular solar eclipse, and the hole was really Earth's Moon, an object whose dark half may appear even darker when compared to the tremendously bright Sun. The Moon was too far from Earth to create a total solar eclipse, but instead left well placed observers with a bright surrounding circle called the ring of fire. Pictured above was a complete solar annular eclipse sequence as seen above the Ananda Temple in Bagan, Myanmar. The image of the ancient temple, built around the year 1100, was taken after sunset on the same day of the eclipse. The next solar eclipse will be a total solar eclipse during 2010 July.

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APOD Robot wrote: Annular Eclipse Over Myanmar

Pictured above was a complete solar annular eclipse sequence as seen above the Ananda Temple in Bagan, Myanmar. The image of the ancient temple, built around the year 1100, was taken after sunset on the same day of the eclipse.

Hmmm....

Four annular eclipse APODs => four religions:
Ancient Greek, Hindu, Islam & Buddhism.

Most bizarre!

Kind of eclipses a planetary belief system doesn’t it.

To coin an old phrase… "What is there what should never be?" Art, Man you have a lot of posts! I wonder what the record is for most postings?

Robert Plant wrote:

• What Is and What Should Never Be
  ...
  Catch the wind see us spin
  Sail away leave the day
  Way up high in the sky
  Hey oh
  Where the wind won't blow
  We really shouldn't go
  And it only goes to show
  ...

Led Zeppelin II - 1969

ahh, ed ... your edit beat me to it

Hi Bystander,

Been a while… thanks for helping keep this in perspective. Art is a bit whacky at times. Star struck perhaps! Man he has a lot of posts!

I love today’s APOD… the gradual increasing and decreasing eclipse positions would make a cool separator for the four mentioned religious paradigms.

I think eclipses are simply one thing after another... and I just wanted to be the latest Asterisk post... ego trip and all...

emc wrote:Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday

Wow, I don't remember that one at all, but the music seemed so familiar.
Figured it out. It reminded me of Cream - Born Under a Bad Sign.
But this all way off topic. Shall we get back to Annular Eclipses?

I want to group annular eclipses and Uranus together. I am a horrible person.