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“Hybrid” eclipse at dawn

By on November 3, 2013

There was an eclipse of the sun at dawn today that was visible from the southern United States all the way to Africa. 

It was described as a rare eclipse because during the celestial event was classified as a hybrid, meaning it went from an annular to a total eclipse in a matter of seconds. 

According to the BBC, the eclipse event started about 620 miles east of Jacksonville Florida with an annular eclipse lasting for about 4 seconds at sunrise. 

Then as the moon’s shadow across the sun moved east, the event switched from annular to total along a narrow corridor, with the greatest total eclipse occurring in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 330km south-west of Liberia.

The total eclipse lasted for more than one minute.  The next eclipse of the sun occurs in April, 2014.

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