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Ptah

(33,044 posts) Fri Jul 5, 2019, 01:43 AM Jul 2019

Astronomy Picture of the Day - La Silla Eclipse Sequence (2019 July 5)

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
Explanation: The road to the high mountaintop La Silla Observatory
in the Chilean Atacama Desert also led in to the path of July 2nd's total
solar eclipse. Recorded at regular intervals before and after the total eclipse
phase, the frames in this composite sequence include the moment the Moon's
dark shadow fell across some of planet Earth's advanced large telescopes.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190705.html

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Astronomy Picture of the Day - La Silla Eclipse Sequence (2019 July 5) (Original Post) Ptah Jul 2019 OP

Thank you, my dear Ptah, for posting this amazing and brilliant photo. It is remarkable. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2019 #1

I wonder if the people who built that observatory planned for this. Ptah Jul 2019 #2

I'm sure they did. Photography is just one of the things they do in observatories. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2019 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jul 2019 #3

CaliforniaPeggy

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1. Thank you, my dear Ptah, for posting this amazing and brilliant photo. It is remarkable. n/t

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Fri Jul 5, 2019, 01:46 AM

Jul 2019

Ptah

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2. I wonder if the people who built that observatory planned for this.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 5, 2019, 02:12 AM

Jul 2019

I can't think of a better example of serendipity.

CaliforniaPeggy

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4. I'm sure they did. Photography is just one of the things they do in observatories. n/t

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Fri Jul 5, 2019, 02:43 AM

Jul 2019

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