Rare Hybrid Annular-Total Solar Eclipse Set for April 20th - by Astroguyz
. This is the kind of eclipse most folks will get on a plane and head to an exotic location for. Though we often marvel at how the Moon seems to be a great fit versus the Sun as seen from the Earth, this isn’t always the case. If New Moon is headed towards apogee and the Sun is a few months within perihelion, the inner umbral shadow fails to reach the surface of the Earth, and an annular eclipse occurs. Observers are then treated to a brilliant ‘ring of fire’ eclipse.
The 49-kilometer wide path touches down at sunrise over the Indian Ocean. The eclipse only brushes land briefly at three points. First landfall occurs over the extreme northwestern tip of Australia along the Ningaloo Coast and the tiny town of Exmouth. The shadow then crosses the Timor Sea and touches the eastern tip of the island nation of East Timor near the capital of Dili, and then crosses a scattering of Indonesian islands including Kisar, the Schouten Islands and Western New Guinea.
“The April 20, 2023 hybrid solar eclipse is notable in that it is longer in duration than most annular-totals, and is the longest until October 17, 2172,” Eclipse-chaser and researcher. “There is some true annularity at the end of the central path just before sunset, but with a brief duration of just over 4 seconds of annularity. This eclipse will have a total of about 2920-kilometers of broken annularity.
Solar eclipses are more common than you’d think throughout the solar system. Rovers on Mars routinely witness
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