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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2023 September 10   
      A person is seen standing at the top of a ridge. The person appears as   
      a silhouette onto the central dark region of an annular solar eclipse.   
       The annular solar eclipse is a bright ring with a large dark hole in   
       the middle. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.   
      
                     An Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico   
                        Credit & Copyright: Colleen Pinski   
      
      Explanation: What is this person doing? In 2012, an annular eclipse of   
      the Sun was visible over a narrow path that crossed the northern   
      Pacific Ocean and several western US states. In an annular solar   
      eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block out the entire   
      Sun, leaving the Sun peeking out over the Moon's disk in a ring of   
      fire. To capture this unusual solar event, an industrious photographer   
      drove from Arizona to New Mexico to find just the right vista. After   
      setting up and just as the eclipsed Sun was setting over a ridge about   
      0.5 kilometers away, a person unknowingly walked right into the shot.   
      Although grateful for the unexpected human element, the photographer   
      never learned the identity of the silhouetted interloper. It appears   
      likely that the person is holding a circular device that would enable   
      them to get their own view of the eclipse. The shot was taken at sunset   
      on 2012 May 20 at 7:36 pm local time from a park near Albuquerque. Next   
      month, on October 14, a different narrow swath across North and South   
      America will be exposed to a different annular solar eclipse, if the   
      sky is clear. Simultaneously, cloud-free observers almost anywhere on   
      either continent will be able to see a partial solar eclipse.   
      
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