Images of total and annular eclipse

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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 13:37:34 CEST AkaSci 🛰️

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   Total eclipses occur more often in the northern hemisphere than the southern one because -
   - Eclipses are more likely in summer, because the Sun is up longer then.
   - Summer in the northern hemisphere happens when the Earth is near aphelion, its farthest distance from the Sun for the year, the Sun is a bit smaller in the sky, which favors the occurrence of total solar eclipses and disfavors annular ones.
   - The opposite holds for the southern hemisphere.

   https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5222
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