Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013


A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node on 3 November 2013. It was a hybrid eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.0159, with a small portion over the western Atlantic Ocean at sunrise as an annular eclipse, and the rest of the path as a narrow total solar eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A hybrid solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's in sunrise and sunset, but at Greatest Eclipse the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's.
In this particular case the eclipse path starts out as annular. Further down the track it changes to total and then back to annular before the path ends.
It was the 23rd eclipse of the 143rd Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on March 7, 1617 and will conclude with a partial eclipse on April 23, 2897.
This hybrid solar eclipse started annular solar eclipse and ended total solar eclipse.

Viewing

Totality was visible from the northern Atlantic Ocean to Africa, with a maximum duration of totality of 1 minute and 39 seconds, visible from the Atlantic Ocean south of Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Places with partial darkening were the Eastern coast of North America, southern Greenland, Bermuda, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, Northern South America, almost all the African continent, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece, Malta, Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey and the Middle East.
This solar eclipse happened simultaneously with the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and it was possible to observe a partial solar eclipse in Abu Dhabi before the sunset while the F1 race took place, as shown briefly during its broadcast.

From space

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Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2013

Saros 143

Inex series

Tritos series

Metonic series