Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                                2023 April 29
    [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest
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                          Solar Eclipse from a Ship
                        Image Credit: [3]Fred Espenak

   Explanation: [4]Along a narrow path that mostly avoided landfall, the
   shadow of the [5]New Moon raced across planet Earth's southern
   hemisphere on April 20 to create a rare annular-total or [6]hybrid
   solar eclipse. From the Indian Ocean off the coast of western
   Australia, ship-borne eclipse chasers were able to witness 62 seconds
   of totality though while anchored near the centerline of the total
   eclipse track. This ship-borne image of the eclipse captures the active
   Sun's magnificent outer atmosphere or [7]solar corona streaming into
   space. A composite of 11 exposures ranging from 1/2000 to 1/2 second,
   it records an extended range of brightness to follow details of the
   corona not quite visible to the eye during the total eclipse phase.
   [8]Of course eclipses tend to come in pairs. On May 5, the [9]next Full
   Moon will just miss the dark inner part of Earth's shadow in a
   penumbral lunar eclipse.

    Total Solar Eclipse of 2023 April Gallery: [10]Notable Submissions to
                                    APOD
                  Tomorrow's picture: subtle Saturnian moon
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    Authors & editors: [22]Robert Nemiroff ([23]MTU) & [24]Jerry Bonnell
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                           & [32]Michigan Tech. U.

References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2304/TSE2023-Comp48-2a.jpg
   3. http://astropixels.com/index.html
   4. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/hybrid-solar-eclipse-april-20-2023/
   5. https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/eclipses/
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131103.html
   7. https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/sun-space-weather/corona
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210612.html
   9. https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/eclipses/
  10. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.212225858172666&type=3
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  16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  20. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=230429
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230430.html
  22. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  24. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  25. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
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  28. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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