01-26-2009, 11:15 PM
Onlookers will never forget today's sunset in the Philippines. Dr. Armando Lee and Fermin Naelga send this picture from the Mall of Asia seawall overlooking Manila Bay:
"The sun sinking into the waves resembled a shark's fin," says Lee.
It was a solar eclipse. The new Moon passed in front of the sun, covering as much as 93% of the solar disk. This produced an array of sunset crescents and rings of fire witnessed across the Indian Ocean from South Africa to Indonesia. Browse the gallery for more:
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"The sun sinking into the waves resembled a shark's fin," says Lee.
It was a solar eclipse. The new Moon passed in front of the sun, covering as much as 93% of the solar disk. This produced an array of sunset crescents and rings of fire witnessed across the Indian Ocean from South Africa to Indonesia. Browse the gallery for more:
http://www.spaceweather.com/