                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2024 April 27

                             All Sky Moon Shadow
                 Image Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel (TWAN)

   Explanation: If the Sun is up but the sky is dark and the horizon is
   bright all around, you might be standing in the Moon's shadow during a
   total eclipse of the Sun. In fact, the all-sky Moon shadow shown in
   this composited panoramic view was captured from a farm near Shirley,
   Arkansas, planet Earth. The exposures were made under clear skies
   during the April 8 total solar eclipse. For that location near the
   center line of the Moon's shadow track, totality lasted over 4 minutes.
   Along with the solar corona surrounding the silhouette of the Moon
   planets and stars were visible during the total eclipse phase. Easiest
   to see here are bright planets Venus and Jupiter, to the lower right
   and upper left of the eclipsed Sun.

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