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If you get up with the roosters, you may have recently seen a rare sight in the sky for the Central Virginia area: a sun pillar.

These next two weeks bring us a potentially thrilling partial eclipse of the sun and amazing sights of Venus in its once-every-eight-years steepest departure from the evening sky.

While the season officially begins at 4:01 a.m., a clear look at Thursday's sunrise will likely be obscured by cloud cover as overnight rain and snow begins to dissipate from the region.

it may reflect the color of the sky and appear bluish. Some of the most picturesque clouds occur close to sunrise and sunset when they can appear in brilliant yellows, oranges and reds.

Readers’ photos celebrate sunrises and sunsets, when the light is the most pleasing. Fifty-one photos were sent in; here are the top picks.

Exactly two weeks after the "blood moon" total lunar eclipse comes a partial solar eclipse visible to some in North America.