APOD 2.3

This weeks APOD is a photo of the partial solar eclipse that occurred last Sunday

This is taken from New York at sunrise and is just visually stunning. The sunrise was an hour earlier due to the daylight saving time ending. I chose this photo because I got to see the same thing, start to finish, from Florida in my backyard. While America only saw a partial eclipse, off the coast off Africa people were able to see a total eclipse. This was something that people payed thousands of dollars and spent weeks preparing to be able to see the total eclipse while I got to see some of it from my back yard. The reason that it was partially eclipsed here and fully eclipsed in Africa is because this was a hybrid eclipse. That means that parts of the Earth saw the moon at an odd angle in some places creating partial eclipses. This is just another wondrous thing about the stars and the planets that are super beautiful and incredible just think about and even sometimes have the privilege to see.