However, a partial solar eclipse is very different to a total solar eclipse.
Here’s what a few key cities in the region will see of the partial solar eclipse at the “peak” of the event: Zeiler/ Michael Zeiler/ Where is the partial solar eclipse? “The duration will be less than one second.” “But if you correct for the lunar limb there is no true annularity at the beginning of the eclipse, it will be what I call a ‘broken annular’ and never a closed ring.” At the end of the eclipse, it’ll only be briefly be a true annular. “If you do the classical computation then it’s very briefly an annular at the beginning and very briefly annular at the end,” said Michael Zeiler, a New Mexico-based eclipse cartographer who edits and the co-author of the Field Guide to the 20 eclipses. The cause is the mountains and topography of the Moon-and it’s called a “broken annular” eclipse. Halfway between a “ring of fire” and a total solar eclipse, there will be places-all very remote-where it will be possible to see (from a very precisely-positioned ship) beads of light around the Moon. What is a ‘broken annular’ solar eclipse? “It’s just a description of the eclipse path as it changes from total to annular or annular to total-what you see is either a total, an annular or a kind of broken annular,” he said. “It refers to any eclipse that changes from annular to total or total to annular at some point along its path-due primarily to the curvature of the Earth bringing that part of the path closer to the Sun.” However, nobody actually sees a hybrid eclipse because it’s not a visual event in itself. How can that be-and what difference does it make to observers? “The term ‘hybrid’ describes the entire central path of the eclipse from start to finish,” said Fred Espenak, retired NASA astrophysicist, author, photographer and eclipse expert. This hybrid solar eclipse changes from annular (a “ring of fire,” where the Moon appears smaller than the Sun, so doesn’t block all of its light) to a total (where the Moon appears slightly larger, so blocks out all of the Sun’s light), then back to annular. Zeiler/ Michael Zeiler/ What is a ‘hybrid’ solar eclipse?
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