Many lucky people around the world were treated to an unusual “hybrid” solar eclipse that
occurred 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 is a narrow total solar eclipse.Totality
was visible from the northern Atlantic Ocean (east of Florida) to Africa (Gabon
(landfall), R. Congo, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia),
with maximum 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.
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