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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Monday, June 28, 2021 entitled "A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse."

Image: A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse - Image Credit & Copyright - Wang Letian (Eyes at Night)

This is a wonderful image which resembles a Salvadore Dali scene :-)

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"Explanation: It may look like a paper Moon. Sailing past a canvas Sun. But those are not cardboard clouds. And it's not make believe. The featured picture of an orange colored sky is real -- a digital composite of two exposures of the solar eclipse that occurred earlier this month. The first exposure was taken with a regular telescope that captured an overexposed Sun and an underexposed Moon, while the second image was taken with a solar telescope that captured details of the chromosphere of the background Sun. The Sun's canvas-like texture was brought up by imaging in a very specific shade of red emitted by hydrogen. Several prominences can be seen around the Sun's edge. The image was captured just before sunset from Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China. It's also not make-believe to imagine that the Moon is made of dense rock, the Sun is made of hot gas, and clouds are made of floating droplets of water and ice."

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SGT John Melvin
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Morning Bill. Great image!
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Cool picture share Maj William W. 'Bill' Price , looks like a rendition of Pacman, and it wants to eat that wind turbine sir.
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SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D
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Great comparison!
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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