Betelgeuse Eclipsed

Asteroid 319 Leona solid a shadow across planet Earth on December 12, as it handed in entrance of intellectual huge name Betelgeuse. However to gape all people’s accepted pink huge huge name recede this time, you needed to face near the center of the narrow shadow direction starting up in central Mexico and lengthening eastward across southern Florida, the Atlantic Ocean, southern Europe, and Eurasia. The geocentric celestial match is captured in these two panels taken at Almodovar del Rio, Spain from sooner than (left) and in some unspecified time in the future of the asteroid-huge name occultation. In each and every panels Betelgeuse is seen above and left, at the shoulder of the familiar constellation Orion. Its brightness diminishes noticeably in some unspecified time in the future of the exceedingly uncommon occultation when, for quite loads of seconds, the extensive huge name became temporarily eclipsed by a roughly 60 kilometer diameter critical-belt asteroid.