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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What is this person doing? In 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun was visible over a narrow path that crossed the northern Pacific Ocean and several western US states. In an annular solar eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block out the entire Sun, leaving the Sun peeking out over the Moon's disk in a ring of fire. To capture this unusual solar event, an industrious photographer drove from Arizona to New Mexico to find just the right vista. After setting up and just as the eclipsed Sun was setting over a ridge about 0.5 kilometers away, a person unknowingly walked right into the shot. Although grateful for the unexpected human element, the photographer never learned the identity of the silhouetted interloper. It appears likely, though, that the person is holding a circular device that would enable them to get their own view of the eclipse. The shot was taken at sunset on 2012 May 20 at 7:36 pm local time from a park near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Tomorrow another annular solar eclipse will become visible, this time along a thin path starting in Saudi Arabia and going through southern India, Singapore, and Guam. However, almost all of Asia with a clear sky will be able to see, tomorrow, at the least, a partial solar eclipse. Free Download: 2020 APOD Calendar

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Leaves of yellow and brown
lie compacted on the ground,
covering plants, paths and pots
awaiting this Spring's Forget me Nots.

Tell me no stories,
tell me no lies.
Wake me up
so I realize,
that Love is free,
ad infinitum, painlessly.

A moonless night.
No clouds in sight.
A darkened road,
No cars, no light.
Returning from
A lit up bar.
Walking down
The road so black,
Towards our ship,
Tied up at the Naval Base
in Guam, U.S. Territory.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What stars shine in Earth's northern hemisphere during winter? The featured image highlights a number of bright stars visible earlier this month. The image is a 360-degree horizontal-composite panorama of 66 vertical frames taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location at about 2:30 am. Famous stars visible in the picture include Castor & Pollux toward the southeast on the left, Sirius just over the horizon toward the south, Capella just over the arch of the Milky Way Galaxy toward the west, and Polaris toward the north on the right. Captured by coincidence is a meteor on the far left. In the foreground is the Museum of the Orava Village in Zuberec, Slovakia. This village recreates rural life in the region hundreds of years ago, while the image captures a timeless sky surely familar to village residents, a sky also shared with northern residents around the world. Free Download: 2020 APOD Calendar

Photo by Tomas Slovinsky

A seed,
a thought,
a gem,
an idea.
What does that mean
to you?
New found ambitions?
New day to work?
Keep yourself busy,
nothing to shirk.

Life
is like a butterfly
whatever it is.

Alex Kerr, Lost Japan
Lonely Planet Publishers 1996

As Winter rain falls
splattering on garden path
making new puddles.

I say of you,
you say of me,
when on Earth,
will I be free?
Free from pain
that is within,
free from noise,
free of the din.
Free of boundaries,
no more fences,
free of the sound
offending my senses.

It was a cloudy day and I was on my couch, bored because I was doing nothing, so at 4pm I decided to go to Lake Carezza. The weather was not good, but according to the forecast it would be better for the sunset. It was worth it. Legend has it that a magician smashed the rainbow he had created to seduce a mermaid into the lake, sending beautiful colors tumbling into the water. In truth, many of the beautiful colors are reflected from the surrounding evergreen forests, colors of the mountain rock faces, and the sky above.

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