A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
			
		
		
			Image Credit & Copyright: 
Jimmy Westlake 
(Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake
		
		
			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.