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This looks like something that could have been drawn up on photoshop, but this is a sequence of shots from under the antumbral shadow of the moon. Taken with a 60mm Takahashi fluorite refractor and a Baader solar filter, these shots show the moon passing right in front of the Sun, obscuring 94% of the Suns's disc for just over a couple of minutes in the day. The path of the moon's antumbral shadow across the Earth's surface is a very thin one, and yet it was fortunate enough that it passed right through Singapore where I live. While there were other such eclipses relatively nearby, the last time this happened in the exact spot was over 500 years ago.

Description
This looks like something that could have been drawn up on photoshop, but this is a sequence of shots from under the antumbral shadow of the moon. Taken with a 60mm Takahashi fluorite refractor and a Baader solar filter, these shots show the moon passing right in front of the Sun, obscuring 94% of the Suns's disc for just over a couple of minutes in the day. The path of the moon's antumbral shadow across the Earth's surface is a very thin one, and yet it was fortunate enough that it passed right through Singapore where I live. While there were other such eclipses relatively nearby, the last time this happened in the exact spot was over 500 years ago.