SUNSET: 
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Photographer:
George-Hripcsak
Location of Photo:
Comb Ridge, Utah
Date/Time of photo:
2023-10-14 15:03 UT
Equipment:
50mm homemade coronagraph at 5303 Angstroms
Description:
These images show the Moon approaching the Sun before first contact and moving across the Sun up till second contact, set against the solar corona. Universal times label the images, and they all have south up. The dark black disk in the center is the shadow of the coronagraph’s obscuring cone. The Moon is a more subtle grey disk due to scattered light in the atmosphere. At 15:03UT, the Moon is seen just coming in from the left (west) over the corona before first contact. At 16:15, the far edge of the Moon can be seen against the corona. At 16:26, minutes before second contact, the west corona can been seen well peaking from behind the Moon, and the coronal streamers can be seen all around.
