#ANNULAR #SOLAR #ECLIPSE--TODAY: The #Moon is about to pass directly in front of the #sun, producing a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse on Oct. 2nd. The path of annularity passes almost entirely over remote parts of the Pacific Ocean:

Above: Eclipse visibility map created by Spaceweather.com reader Peter Zimnikoval

Land masses where people can see the ring of fire include Easter Island and the southern tips of Argentina and Chile. Only ~175,000 people live in the path of annularity.

Annular eclipses occur when the Moon is a little too small to cover the entire sun. All around the circumference of the Moon, the sun peeks out from behind lunar craters and mountain ranges, producing the ring-of-fire effect.

https://spaceweather.com/

#Annular #SolarEclipse over #Utah

#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231101.html

#APOD #Eclipse

Hackaday Links: October 22, 2023

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Hackaday Links: October 22, 2023

The second of three major solar eclipses in a mere six-year period swept across the United States last week. We managed to catch the first one back in 2017, and still have plans for the next one in…

#COLANDERS AREN'T JUST FOR PASTA: Picture this: You just found out there's going to be a #solar eclipse and--oh no!--you can't find your #eclipse glasses. No problem. Just grab a colander. Steve Lee of Lovington, #New-Mexico, held one up to the sky on Oct 14th and created two hundred tiny images of the #eclipsed #sun:

Colanders make excellent eclipse projectors. Each hole in the pasta strainer acts like a pinhole camera, beaming an image of the sun onto any convenient screen. It's like an insect with compound eyes--an insect that did not lose its eclipse glasses.

The images on Lee's sidewalk look like donuts because that's how the sun looked at the time. An #annular eclipse was underway, with the #Moon dead-center in front of the #solar disk.