{"id":23939,"date":"2020-12-18T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23939"},"modified":"2020-12-18T05:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:50:23","slug":"diamond-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23939","title":{"rendered":"Diamond in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2012\/2020Dec14TSE_Ribas_IMG_9291c1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>When the shadow of the Moon raced across planet Earth&#8217;s southern hemisphere on December 14, sky watchers along the shadow&#8217;s dark central path were treated to the only total solar eclipse of 2020. During the New Moon&#8217;s shadow play this glistening diamond ring was seen for a moment, even in cloudy skies. Known as the diamond ring effect, the transient spectacle actually happens twice. Just before and immediately after totality, a thin sliver of solar disk visible behind the Moon&#8217;s edge creates the appearance of a shiny jewel set in a dark ring. This dramatic snapshot from the path of totality in northern Patagonia, Argentina captures this eclipse&#8217;s second diamond ring, along with striking solar prominences lofted beyond the edge of the Moon&#8217;s silhoutte. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap201218.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the shadow of the Moon raced across planet Earth&#8217;s southern hemisphere on December 14, sky watchers along the shadow&#8217;s dark central path were treated to the only total solar <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23939\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23940,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions\/23940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}