A Total Eclipse Over Africa
What's that dark spot on the Sun? It's the Moon. Last month, on June 21, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Africa . In one of the most spectacular records of this eclipse , Cees Bassa captured the setting Sun being eclipsed in a series of multiple exposures from Malambanyama , Zambia . All of the images were taken 20 minutes apart, and all but the central image were taken though a dark solar filter . Without the filter, the central image features the enormous flowing corona that surrounds the Sun . The planet Jupiter can be seen superposed just to the left of the next image after totality.