Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 2005
Posted on April 7, 2005
A partial solar eclipse will occur on April 8th, 2005. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) calls it "an unusual hybrid eclipse of the Sun." The GSFC says "the central path of the eclipse runs across the South Pacific where it changes from an annular eclipse to a total eclipse and then back to an annular eclipse again before reaching Central America." The farther south and east you are in the United States the better you will be able to see the eclipse. A map provided by the GSFC shows the regions of visibility of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2005 in the USA. And the GSFC website contains a table where you can look up your city and see what time the eclipse will begins and ends and what the maximum eclipse will be.