APOD: 2020 June 8 - Atmospheric Ring of Venus

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Monday, June 8, 2020 entitled "Atmospheric Ring of Venus."
Image: Atmospheric Ring of Venus - Image Credit & Copyright - Pete Lawrence (Digital Sky)

APOD Background "Image Credit & Copyright: Pete Lawrence (Digital Sky)
Explanation: Why is Venus surrounded by a bright ring? Sometimes called a ring of fire, this rare ring is caused by the Sun's light being visible all around an object. Usually seen around the Moon during an annular solar eclipse, the ring of fire is also visible when either Venus or Mercury cross the face of our Sun. In the featured pictured taken last week, though, Venus did not pass directly in front of the Sun -- the complete atmospheric ring was caused by sunlight defracting around the planet. Venus passed within one degree of the Sun during its inferior conjunction, as it moved from the evening to the morning sky. The extreme brightness of the nearby Sun made capturing such an image very difficult -- the featured image was only made possible by using a temporary filter to block direct sunlight. The image was captured from Thorton, Leicestershire, UK. The pervasive blue sky glow indicates that the image was actually captured during the day."

June Carter Cash - Ring Of Fire
""Ring of Fire", or "The Ring of Fire", is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and recorded by Johnny Cash.The single appears on Cash's 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as "(Love's) Ring of Fire". "Ring of Fire" was ranked No. 4 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music in 2003 and #87 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked the song #27 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbsU2UhWsJQ


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Amazing photo of Venus, Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!!! I've never seen Venus in this view before... Eating Breakfast, more shortly, Bill!

Outstanding...you always have marvelous images and accompanying astronomical information in your posts as well: excellent!