September 13, 2015
On the day you arrived, the Earth was spinning at a thousand miles per hour, orbiting the Sun at sixty-seven thousand.
A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
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APOD published September 13, 2015. Credit: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery -- it was behind the Moon. Featured here is one of the more interesting images taken of a partial solar eclipse that occurred in 2012, capturing a temporarily crescent Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill. The image was taken about 20 miles west of Sundown, Texas, USA, just after the ring of fire effect was broken by the Moon moving away from the center of the Sun. Today a new partial solar eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Earth. Unfortunately for people who live in Texas, today's eclipse can only be seen from southern Africa and Antarctica.
Image credit: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake