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Imaging the partial solar eclipse

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The Moon moves across the face of the Sun on 10 June, an event that varies in appearance depending on your location on Earth (see ‘Explainer’ on page 72). Along a narrow track running through Canada, Greenland and into Russia the Moon’s disc appears to fit within the disc of the Sun to produce an annular eclipse; the ‘ring of fire’.

Away from this track an ever-decreasing magnitude of partial solar eclipse will be seen until, when far enough

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