Hybrid solar eclipse: what is it and how does it happen?

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Sequence of total solar eclipse shows the sun disappearing behind the advancing moon and then remerging again.

A hybrid solar eclipse is an extremely rare and exotic astronomical event — and one coming soon, on April 20, 2023.

Talk to most eclipse chasers and they will tell you that there are three types of eclipse chasers solar eclipse. The first is a partial eclipse of the most common and least impressive because the moon Just block part of the sun sending a shadow—the penumbra—across a patch of Earth, the second being an annular eclipse of the sun, in which the center of the sun is obscured by the moon, but leaves a circle of light from the sun visible from within a shadow called an antumbra. It is often called the “ring of fire”. The third is a total solar eclipse in which the moon completely blocks the sun’s disk, revealing the stunning view of the solar corona, which can be seen with the naked eye from within the moon’s dark shadow, the umbra.

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