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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Sunday, June 6, 2021 entitled "A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse."

Image: A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse - Image Credit & Copyright - Elias Chasiotis

This spectacular image from December 2019 from Al Wakrah, Qatar of a full annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the background Sun in a ring of fire.

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"Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen a sunrise like this? Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during partial eclipse, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top of the atmospherically-reddened Sun is the Moon -- but so is the dark peak just below it. This is because along the way, the Earth's atmosphere had an inversion layer of unusually warm air which acted like a gigantic lens and created a second image. For a normal sunrise or sunset, this rare phenomenon of atmospheric optics is known as the Etruscan vase effect. The featured picture was captured in December 2019 from Al Wakrah, Qatar. Some observers in a narrow band of Earth to the east were able to see a full annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the background Sun in a ring of fire. The next solar eclipse, also an annular eclipse for well-placed observers, will occur later this week on June 10."

Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FyTfLAlASU

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CWO3 Dennis M.
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I agree, it most stunning!
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Astonishing! Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
Also here’s a link on the “ring of fire” right from your article
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090125.html
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