Eclipse Over New York

This is a selection from this link: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131104.html

This photograph titled "Eclipse Over New York". The Sun was partially eclipsed by the moon. This is seen from most of the eastern North America and northern parts of South America. Much of Africa was able to see the eclipse during it's daytime.This eclipse was a hybrid where parts of the Earth saw the Moon as not large enough to cover the whole Sun, while other parts of the Earth witnessed a total solar eclipse where the Sun was completely covered by the Moon. Small changes in the angular size of the Moon were caused by the non-flatness of the Earth combined with the Moon's elliptical orbit. Unfortunately I missed viewing this partial solar eclipse but I am mystified by these photos. I find the scientific explanations in this APOD fascinating.