Image of the Partially Eclipsed Sun (IMAGE)

Royal Astronomical Society

Image of the Partially Eclipsed Sun

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Image of the partially eclipsed sun, photographed through a telephoto lens capped with a special-purpose solar filter. The moon covers 10 percent of the sun's diameter and not quite 2 percent of its area. Dark sunspots speckle the solar disk.

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Credit: Rick Fienberg / TravelQuest International / Wilderness Travel.

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