Image Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake

这是一个典型的德克萨斯式的落日，太阳的大部分消失了。部分太阳消失的原因不是迷（因为那些部分被月亮挡住了）。周日晚上的日偏食已经成为了史上最好的天文照片之一。展览出现后，网上又出现了另一个惊人的日偏食照片。上图可能就是更为有趣的一张照片，日偏食就像被设置在风车前景的油画里一样。这张图在周日晚上美国德克萨斯州西方20英里处拍摄到的，仅仅在月球刚刚离开太阳中间之后一点点。下个月早些时候，又有天文现象，应该会有更好的照片，也是2117年之前最后的一次日偏食，这次是被金星挡住了的。

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. Sunday night’s partial eclipse of the Sun by the Moon turned into one of the best photographed astronomical events in history. Gallery after online gallery is posting just one amazing eclipse image after another. Pictured above is possibly one of the more interesting posted images — a partially eclipsed Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill. The image was taken Sunday night from 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. Coming early next month is an astronomical event that holds promise to be even more photographed — the last partial eclipse of the Sun by Venus until the year 2117.

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)&西利天文社