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These are natural circles, not computer graphics. The bright disk is the sun. The dark disk is the moon. I clicked an eclipse of the sun on May 20, 2012 as the sun was going down over the Estrella mountains near Phoenix, AZ. The eclipse photo is framed by blending it with a picture of a rotating ellipse. It is a time exposure of a penlight swinging as a pendulum on a string hanging from the ceiling of a dark room (with camera on the floor facing up). PS: I want to caution anyone photographing a solar eclipse to use proper eye protection.