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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.   
      
                                  2024 October 11   
      
                          Ring of Fire over Easter Island   
          Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas   
                                Observatory, TWAN)   
      
      Explanation: The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On   
      October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular   
      eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly   
      over ocean, making its only major landfall near the southern tip of   
      South America, and then ending in the southern Atlantic. The dramatic   
      total annular eclipse phase is known to some as a ring of fire. Also   
      tracking across islands in the southern Pacific, the Moon's antumbral   
      shadow grazed Easter Island allowing denizens to follow all phases of   
      the annular eclipse. Framed by palm tree leaves this clear island view   
      is a stack of two images, one taken with and one taken without a solar   
      filter near the moment of the maximum annular phase. The New Moon's   
      silhouette appears just off center, though still engulfed by the bright   
      disk of the active Sun.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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