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Celestial spectacle

– Photos: P. Venugopal, C. Ratheesh Kumar and S. Gopakumar

Rare view: (Clockwise from top) A curious pattern of light and shadow on a garden seat under the canopy of a bird cherry in Thiruvananthapuram at the time of the annular solar eclipse on Friday; the reflection of the crescent sun from a reflecting telescope just after the solar eclipse had completed its annular phase in Thiruvananthapuram; Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation K. Radhakrishnan (right) and Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre P.S. Veeraraghavan watching the eclipse at the VSSC in Thiruvananthapuram, and a view of the annular eclipse from the capital.

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