Monday, October 03, 2005

Annular Eclipse

The moon passes between the earth and the sun to cause an annular solar eclipse as seen from central Spain October 3, 2005. An annular eclipse differs from a total eclipse in that the moon appears too small to completely cover the sun. As a result, the moon is surrounded by an intensely brilliant ring or annulus formed by the outer perimeter of the sun's disk.

The last annular eclipse visible from Spain took place on the 1st of April 1764 and the next one will occur on the 26th of January 2028. [REUTERS/Victor Fraile]

4 comments:

Ayannali said...

Nice picture :)

cube said...

Thank you. It was a toss up between this picture & one of the eclipse being reflected onto a girl's tongue. I thought this was more illustrative of this type of eclipse.

Jen said...

That's a neat picture!

Jamie Dawn said...

That is very, incredibly cool!