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Plane Contrail and Sun Halo: Rare picture by Alexandros Maragos in NASA gallery

April 4, 2017 Sky 3

Alexandros Maragos, talented photographer and director from Patras, captured with his camera a rare optical phenomenon: an Airplane Contrail and a Sun Halo. NASA praised the picture of the rare phenomenon as the Astronomy Picture of the Day. The short description by NASA reads: What’s happened to the sky? Several …

Full Moon, Eclipse and a green Comet named Honda: Feb 10/2017

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A Snow full moon, a subtle lunar eclipse and a strange green comet named Honda, the Comet 45P. Rare phenomena occur over our heads today, Friday, February 10th 2017. The comet is flashing emerald green and is marked by a long purple tail. Skywatchers this weekend will get two special, …

Rare “Hybrid” Solar Eclipse, visible in Greece too, Nov 3/2013

November 3, 2013 Sky, Very Mix Comments Off on Rare “Hybrid” Solar Eclipse, visible in Greece too, Nov 3/2013

A solar eclipse will today place today Sunday, November 3th, 2013. This eclipse, the last for 2013, is called a a hybrid solar eclipse because it appears fleetingly as an annular – or ring eclipse – at its start in the Atlantic Ocean and becomes a brief total eclipse later …

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