Looking Up with Don

LUWD #0024 Annular Solar Eclipse, Mercury’s tail, Placer Nature Center


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It happens in 2020 on the 21st of JuneWhen the sun in the sky gets hidden by the moonThe moon’s so far away it can’t cover the sun totallySo, a ring of fire will be visible locallyThere will be no corona visible, at least not in the skyYou need a filter to see this or else you will burn your eyeThe Congo is where it is first seen by those without myopiaThen through South Sudan and into EthiopiaMid-morning it visits Yemen and slide by Oman’s capital cityFilter it and take a look I bet it’s mighty prettyPakistan sees the sun assume the shape of a ringThen onto northern India where the eclipse becomes “a thing”Tibet is next then China, sharing this afternoon viewSomething that everyone can look up toTaiwan gets to jump on then the eclipse sinks into the oceanA day of emotion, a moon in slow motion, proving Newton’s three laws of motionDON MACHHOLZ
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