JRS: In article , dated Sun, 26
Mar 2006 00:01:59 remote, seen in news:uk.sci.astronomy, Richard Tobin
posted :

So in theory there
could be an eclipse that was total viewed from one place and
simultaneously annular somewhere else.

Since (IIRC) the Moon is approximately spherical and the Sun is
significantly oblate, it must, ISTM, be possible to have an eclipse
which is complete in the solar polar direction and at the same location
and instant is "annular" in the solar equatorial direction.

I suppose it could be called "ansate" or "ansular".

The eclipse of 1966 May 20 Fri could have been of that nature in at
least one interval (and probably two?), since it was predicted as total
in Greece and annular elsewhere. Those of 2005-04-08 Fri and 2013-11-03
Sun may be similar.

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