Today's composite image was made from 22 separate picturesof the Moon and Sun all taken fro Chisamba, Zambia during thetotal phase of the 2001 June 21 solar eclipse.The multiple exposureswere digitally processed and combined tosimultaneously show a wealth of detail which no single cameraexposure or naked-eye observation could easily reveal.Most striking are the incredible flowing streamersof the Sun's outer atmosphere o solar corona, notoriously difficult to see except whe thenew Moon blocks the bright solar disk.Features on the darkened near sid of the Moon canalso be made out illuminatedby sunlight reflected fro afull Earth.A giant solar prominence seems to hangjust beyond the Moon's eastern (left) edge while about onediameter farther east of the eclipsed Sun is th relatively faint (4th magnitude)star 1 Geminorum.
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