{"id":23979,"date":"2021-01-07T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23979"},"modified":"2021-01-07T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T05:50:08","slug":"total-solar-eclipse-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23979","title":{"rendered":"Total Solar Eclipse 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2101\/Tse_2020_400mm_dmwa-rot.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Along a narrow path crossing southern South America through Chile and Argentina, the final New Moon of 2020 moved in front of the Sun on December 14 in the year&#8217;s only total solar eclipse. Within about 2 days of perigee, the closest point in its elliptical orbit, the New Moon&#8217;s surface is faintly lit by earthshine in this dramatic composite view. The image is a processed composite of 55 calibrated exposures ranging from 1\/640 to 3 seconds. Covering a large range in brightness during totality, it reveals the dim lunar surface and faint background stars, along with planet-sized prominences at the Sun&#8217;s edge, an enormous coronal mass ejection, and sweeping coronal structures normally hidden in the Sun&#8217;s glare. Look closely for an ill-fated sungrazing Kreutz family comet (C\/2020 X3 SOHO) approaching from the lower left, at about the 7 o&#8217;clock position. In 2021 eclipse chasers will see an annular solar eclipse coming up on June 10. They&#8217;ll have to wait until December 4 for the only total solar eclipse in 2021 though. That eclipse will be total along a narrow path crossing the southernmost continent of Antarctica. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap210107.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along a narrow path crossing southern South America through Chile and Argentina, the final New Moon of 2020 moved in front of the Sun on December 14 in the year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23979\" 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-23979","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\/23979","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=23979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23980,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions\/23980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}