Solar eclipse of April 20, 2023

The partial phase of the eclipse can be seen in much of Southeast Asia, in Australia, the North Island of New Zealand and Micronesia.

Course

The eclipse begins at 2:37 UT in the southern Indian Ocean, about 300 kilometers northwest of Ile Kerguelen, the main island of Kerguelen. In a very narrow corridor, there are at the beginning of darkness for a few seconds an annular phase observed. After the shade has approximately 500 kilometers to the northeast traveled direction, the apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon are exactly the same, from this point, the darkness is total, because the apparent size of the Moon up to the maximum of which continues to increase in the course of darkness.

The first time on land meets the umbra in the northwest of Australia in the Peninsula North West Cape, where the shadow path straight so just touching the Australian continent. In the shadow zone is the Cape Range National Park and the town of Exmouth, in the moon for about 54 seconds covers the sun totally. Subsequently, the central line passes exactly through Barrow Iceland before the umbra moves on to the northeast of the Indian Ocean. Just before the umbra in East Timor again reached land, the maximum of the eclipse occurs at 4:16 UT in the Timor Sea with a totality of 1 minute and 16 seconds. In East Timor, the cities Viqueque and Lospalos lie in the zone of totality. On his way forward through the Banda Sea to the northeast of the core shadow hits the Indonesian islands Kisar and Damar and later the scoring for the Watubela Islands Kasiui. In the Sebakor Bay before Bomberai Peninsula the umbra reaches the province of Papua Barat in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. About the isthmus that connects the bird's head peninsula of New Guinea, the umbra in Cenderawasih Bay reached the sea again. The islands Yapen and Biak are the core shadow zone, the main town of the latter island almost exactly on the center line and has a totality of 1 minute and 4 seconds.

Kosrae in the central Pacific missed the umbra just south, meanwhile, the direction of propagation of the shadow corridor of northeast has changed to east. Also the Ebon Atoll meets the umbra only almost, in this case, he sweeps north over. About 250 kilometers to the east, the apparent size of the Moon is again exactly as large as that of the sun, so that the darkness for the remaining approximately 1000 kilometers to the shadow axis from the surface dissolves, is ring again.