2023, Indonesia Passed Hybrid Solar Eclipse

JAKARTA - For people who did not see or be witness the phenomenon of a total solar eclipse in Indonesia directly at Wednesday (9/3) morning, not be disappointed. The solar eclipse will addressed again Indonesia seven years. Precisely on 20 April 2023.

Head of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan), Thomas Abubakar said, the solar eclipse in 2023 will only across Maluku and West Papua. Thus, efforts to look straight in 2023 will be more severe than in 2016. Therefore, the area covered is much less.

"The duration of a total solar eclipse this morning reached an average of 3 minutes and 19 seconds. Meanwhile, in 2023, the duration accounting for only 1 minute 50 seconds," Thomas said.

According to Thomas, the solar eclipse in 2023 is a hybrid solar eclipse.

Meanwhile, astronomical observer Madhonna Nur Aini, hybrid solar eclipse is the rarest type of solar eclipse. Women who familiarly called Donna, said hybrid eclipse is a fusion of the ring eclipse total solar eclipse.

"On one occasion, a solar eclipse and GMT ring," he said.

So, after that elicits GMT corona, eclipse ring with unobstructed sun moon shape round like a ring.

As released by Wikipedia, a hybrid eclipse, also called annular eclipse shifts between a total and annular eclipse. At certain points on the surface of Earth it appears as a total eclipse, whereas at other points it appears as annular. Hybrid eclipses are comparatively rare.