On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:34:08 +0100, in uk.sci.astronomy , "Mike
Dworetsky" wrote:

"Richard Tobin" wrote in message
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The earth is sufficiently large compared with the distance to the moon
that the apparent size of the moon from different locations on the
earth's surface must vary by a couple of percent. So in theory there
could be an eclipse that was total viewed from one place and
simultaneously annular somewhere else.

Has this ever been observed? Obviously it would be very rare, and
more likely at high latitudes.

-- Richard

Not literally simultaneous, I think, but there are "hybrid" eclipses, in
which the beginning and end of the path of totality are annular,

Last April's eclipse, visible from New Zealand.

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...5/HSE2005.html

Mark McIntyre
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