NASA:"Skywatchers in much of the U.S. are in for a treat on Friday evening, April 8, when the sun and moon cross paths to create a special hybrid solar eclipse. This unusual type of eclipse means a partial eclipse for some viewers, an annular eclipse for some, and a total eclipse for others. In the U.S., a partial eclipse will be visible south of a line extending across the nation from southernmost California to central New Jersey with about a 40% partial eclipse in regions like southern Texas and 50% in southern Florida. Hybrid eclipse occurs when the highest point of the moons shadow pierces Earth's surface at some points, but falls short of the planet along other portions of the eclipse path. The curvature of Earth's surface brings some geographic locations along the path into the umbra while other positions are more distant and enter the antumbral rather than umbral shadow. In this case, the eclipse path starts as an annular eclipse (the moon crosses the sun but does not cover it completely) southeast of New Zealand and stretches across the Pacific Ocean to Panama, Columbia, and Venezuela. It then changes to a total eclipse south of Tahiti, then converts back to an annular near Costa Rica and partial for the US. After Friday, another solar eclipse (also partial) won't be visible from the U.S. until 2012 I live in Idaho, according to NASA, I won't be able to see it. I'm still going to watch anyway never know, a few years back my kids and I watched one out our back door. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. Was like a black & gold ball floating in the air and it was huge to us larger then the moon. So I hope we get lucky again, will let you know if I do."
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