Contemplating the Sun
			
		
		
			Image Credit & Copyright:  
Steven Gilbert
		
		
			Have you contemplated your home star recently?
Pictured above, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by 
earthlings contemplating the eclipse below.
The above menagerie of silhouettes was taken from the 
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area 
near Page, 
Arizona, 
USA, where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the 
unusual event to interested gatherers.
Also faintly visible on the Sun's disk, just to the lower right of the dark Moon's 
disk, is a group of 
sunspots. 
Although exciting, some consider this event a warm-up act for next week's 
chance to comtemplate the Sun -- a much more rare partial eclipse by the 
planet Venus.