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SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Feb. 26th, the Moon passed in front of the sun, off-center, transforming the solar disk into a crescent across much of Earth's southern hemisphere. Oleg Toumilovitch took this picture from Johannesburg, South Africa. I caught the last moments of the eclipse just before sunset," says Toumilovitch. While hundreds of millions of people witnessed a crescent sun, a much smaller number saw the ring of fire. In a narrow path stretching across the southern reaches of South America and parts of Africa, the Moon passed directly in front of the sun, covering 99% of the solar disk. This allowed a fiery annulus of solar plasma to circumscribe the mountainous limb of the Moon. |
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