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APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:06 am
by APOD Robot
Cape York Annular Eclipse
Explanation: This week the shadow of the New Moon
fell on planet Earth, crossing
Queensland's Cape York in northern Australia ...
for the second time in six months. On the morning of May 10, the
Moon's apparent size was too small to completely cover the Sun though, revealing a
"ring of fire" along the central path of the annular
solar eclipse. Near mid-eclipse from Coen, Australia, a
webcast team captured this telescopic snapshot of the annular phase. Taken with a
hydrogen-alpha filter, the dramatic image finds the Moon's silhouette just within the solar disk, and the limb of the active Sun spiked with solar prominences. Still, after hosting back-to-back solar eclipses, northern Australia will miss the next and
final solar eclipse of 2013. This November, a rare
hybrid eclipse will track across the North Atlantic and equatorial Africa.
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Re: APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:44 am
by BDanielMayfield
Very nice APOD. Can someone explain why there is a bright yellow band around most of the moon in this image?
Re: APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 5:01 am
by Boomer12k
Prominent, Ring of Fire....you might say....
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Re: APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 5:23 am
by ta152h0
and this November comet Ison might share that particular event
Re: APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 8:39 am
by saturno2
Beautiful image
Re: APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 5:23 pm
by LocalColor
Wonderful photo! We live on the wrong side of the world for eclipses this year.
Re: APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 3:59 pm
by Vivien
BDanielMayfield wrote:Very nice APOD. Can someone explain why there is a bright yellow band around most of the moon in this image?
Maybe a very small lunar crescent : as this is begining of the eclipse, the right side of the sun still illuminates a small visible part of the moon.
Re: APOD: Cape York Annular Eclipse (2013 May 11)
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:16 pm
by Chris Peterson
Vivien wrote:BDanielMayfield wrote:Very nice APOD. Can someone explain why there is a bright yellow band around most of the moon in this image?
Maybe a very small lunar crescent : as this is begining of the eclipse, the right side of the sun still illuminates a small visible part of the moon.
The light reflected off the limb of the Moon can't possibly be any brighter than the light coming from the Sun itself!
I'd say it's a processing artifact, one which is pretty typical of sharpening, but might also be related to a masking operation.