http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/31/hybrid-solar-eclipse-2013-november-3-sunday_n_4178648.html
Hybrid Solar Eclipse 2013: How To See Rare Celestial Sight On November 3
The Huffington Post | By Sara Gates
Posted: 10/31/2013 11:53 am EDT | Updated: 10/31/2013 12:07 pm EDT
On Sunday skywatchers will be treated to the last solar eclipse of 2013.
The Nov. 3 hybrid solar eclipse will follow a path across the Atlantic Ocean and over Africa. In North America, the eclipse will be visible only to observers on the East Coast.
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The path of the hybrid solar eclipse, via NASA.
Sunday's eclipse is considered a hybrid because it's essentially a mashup of two familiar types of eclipse. It will start as an annular eclipse, with the awesome "ring of fire" around the sun, before morphing into a total solar eclipse, in which the sun is totally blocked for a brief period.
The Slooh Space Camera will livestream the eclipse online as seen from Kenya, where the sun and moon will form a total solar eclipse.
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A sequence of a rare hybrid solar eclipse, as photographed in the annular form in Panama in 2005.
On the East Coast of the U.S., the best chance of seeing the hybrid solar eclipse will be at 6:30 a.m. ET. Skywatchers near Boston and New York should expect to see the moon covering more than half the sun. Farther south, a smaller portion of sun will be obscured.
Hybrid solar eclipses are rare. Of the 11,898 solar eclipses indexed and predicted between 1999 B.C. and 3000 A.D., only 4.8 percent were considered hybrids, according to Universe Today.
Oh, and a note of caution: Remember that eye protection is required when viewing this eclipse, even though it's just a hybrid.
Watch Slooh's live broadcast of the hybrid solar eclipse below from 6:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. ET Sunday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJPhI6QcxPo
Great thread Sky!! Am going to anticipate the Eclipse. I live in Central USA, and wont be able to observe it first hand. having the Slooh Live feed will make this event more memorable. And for that I thank you Sky!!
1WW
hey 1ww..
you are most welcome
good that i won't be the only one watching on line...it's too far est for us
and the sky is mostly so overcast we see nothing anymore..it's very depressing
hugs