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Spartan2470 t1_je0t2mg wrote

Here are higher quality versions of these images. Credit to the photographer, Elias Chasiotis, who took this on December 26, 2019 in Al Wakrah, Qatar.

According to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day:

> Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during partial eclipse, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top of the atmospherically-reddened Sun is the Moon -- but so is the dark peak just below it. This is because along the way, the Earth's atmosphere had a layer of unusually warm air over the sea which acted like a gigantic lens and created a second image. For a normal sunrise or sunset, this rare phenomenon of atmospheric optics is known as the Etruscan vase effect. The featured picture was captured two mornings ago from Al Wakrah, Qatar. Some observers in a narrow band of Earth to the east were able to see a full annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the background Sun in a ring of fire.

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Mananers t1_je0solu wrote

This is a compositional nightmare. At first i thought it was amazing... but then the focus changes and light directions jumped out at me and now i'm just mad that i have to go to this place and take a picture of it without layering 8 different times of day and giving it an AI skybox.

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Tendai-Student t1_je0g2iy wrote

Fun Fact: many turkish (not all of course) people in turkey belive that the statue of liberty was first made for the ottomans, but was reject by the sultan due to it depicting a non veiled woman. So it is said that the france just gave it to US when the sultan didn't want it as a gift after America gifted them the eiffal tower.

This is what I was taught as a child. Turkey has a lot of these weirds beliefs, it partially comes from the fact that its such a homogenous society, that also doesn't speak English. So its closed off to the western world.

A lot of turks belive that native Americans were turks.

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