Annular Eclipse After Sunrise
From northern Patagonia , morning skies were clear and blue on Sunday, February 26. This sweeping composite scene, overlooking Hermoso Valle, Facundo, Chubut, Argentina, follows the Sun after sunrise, capturing an annular solar eclipse . Created from a series of exposures at three minute intervals, it shows the year's first solar eclipse beginning well above the distant eastern horizon. An exposure close to mid-eclipse recorded the expected ring of fire , the silhouette of the New Moon only slightly too small to cover the bright Sun. At that location on planet Earth , the annular phase of the eclipse lasted a brief 45 seconds.