(ORDO NEWS) — Next Thursday, April 20, we will be able to observe a rare hybrid solar eclipse that will change from annular to total and vice versa throughout the entire eclipse process.
The hybrid solar eclipse will only be visible from Australia, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
The eclipse will begin as an annular eclipse over the Indian Ocean, turn into a total as it moves over Western Australia, and end as an annular eclipse over the South Pacific.
First eclipse of 2023
The month of April brings us another celestial event: a hybrid solar eclipse, which, in addition, will be the first solar eclipse this year.
Such solar eclipses are quite rare, they happen very rarely in every century (in the 21st century this will happen only seven times).
The eclipse will be observed in three countries: Australia, East Timor and Indonesia.
There are three types of solar eclipses: total, partial and annular. During a total solar eclipse, the Moon completely covers the Sun, and only the Sun’s outer atmosphere (called the corona) is visible as a thin layer.
During a partial solar eclipse, the Moon only partially obscures the Sun, and some of the sunlight is still visible.
During an annular solar eclipse, the Moon appears smaller than the Sun, and a ring of sunlight is visible around the Moon. A hybrid eclipse will have a little bit of everything.
The last hybrid eclipse happened almost ten years ago, on November 3, 2013. The next eclipse is expected to occur in November 2031.
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