Explanation:
Last
Friday, the fourth and final partial solar eclipse
of2011was
only visible from high latitudes in the southern hemisphere.
If you missed it, check out
this
dramatic picture of the geocentric celestial event
from a very high
southern latitude on the continent of
Antarctica.
From a camera positioned at
San Martín Station
(Argentina)
near the antarctic peninsula mountain range, the picture
looks toward the south and east.
The Sun and
silhouetted lunar disk are seen through thin, low clouds.
Perhaps fittingly, the mountainous slope in the foreground is
part of the larger Roman Four Promontory,
named for its craggy, snow covered face that
resembles the Roman numeral IV.
For 2011, there is actually one more eclipse to go, a
total eclipse of the Moon.
Parts of that eclipse will be visible
from most of planet Earth (but not
Antarctica ...)
on
December 10.
APOD is also available
in Farsi
from Iran
at Nojum.
