Weekend Diversion: Preparing for May 20th's Annular Eclipse!
"They call it a great wonder That the Sun would not though the sky was cloudless Shine warm upon the men." -Sighvald, Icelandic poet A couple of times a year, during the New Moon, the Sun, Moon, and Earth all line up in the same plane. As seen from Earth, the Sun's disc appears blocked, either in whole or in part, by the Moon. As The Beta Band would have told you, this creates an
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