Moon Blocking Sunlight: Skywatchers to witness rare hybrid solar eclipse on this date

New Delhi: The parade of planets in the sky always gives a sense of astonishment. They take us to another experience of the world where we perceive ourselves up above the hill gripping all our happiness and desires. In an incident, skywatchers will now get an opportunity to get amazed by celestial events. This rare hybrid solar eclipse will strike our eyes on April 20 with the moon blocking the sunlight that will otherwise enter into the earth. This once-in-a-full-moon event will be visible in parts of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

Moreover, a hybrid solar eclipse takes place when the earth covers the area where the moon’s umbra, the darkest part of the moon’s shadow, meets the antumbra which is a half shadow that starts when the umbra ends.

To mention, the hybrid solar eclipse is a rare phenomenon that often looks like a normal annular solar eclipse. However, according to date and time, the earth’s curvature takes some parts of the eclipse into the moon’s umbra (the darkest part that creates solar eclipse) while the rest parts remain outside the dark part causing an annular eclipse.

To look at its occurring locations, it’s important to note that you need to be present either in Western Australia, East Timor, or Eastern Indonesia, to watch the celestial event which is also been called as Ningaloo eclipse due to its occurring in the said region. To add to it, it will not be visible in the Indian Territory.

Tracking the history, it can be noted that this type of hybrid solar eclipse last took place a decade ago in 2013. And to view the future, it will probably be next looked at in the year 2031.