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We Found You, Moon!
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From an inside source, we received the information that the Moon was making a brief contact with the Sun about 1 hour after midnight on the last day of February, 2025. We decided to observe it sneakily. Unfortunately, we failed to catch the moment of the contact, as we were during transit through a cloud of high energy particles called SAA and unable to take images. However, after the contact we did catch the shadow quickly moving away from the Sun to the south. Here is the footage. We detected the Moon certainly being there. We are sure to find it again next time around. Keywords: Eclipse, Full Disk Filters: Al-poly |
(Prepared by Aki Takeda and Rhiannon Fleming)
The XRT instrument team is comprised of SAO, NASA, JAXA, and NAOJ.
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