A total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, November 3.
This will be the final eclipse of 2013 and the second solar eclipse to occur this year.
The partial phase of the eclipse will start at 4pm 4 minutes and 4 seconds and end at 9pm 28 minutes and 30 seconds, local time. The annular phases will start at 5pm 5 minutes 18 seconds and will end at 8pm 7 minutes 4 seconds. Totality will occur at 6pm 46 minutes 30 seconds in Bangladesh. The eclipse will have a maximum intensity of 1.017 and will last for a duration of 1 min 45 seconds. The solar eclipse cannot be viewed from Bangladesh.
This information was given during a press release by the Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) on Thursday.
The eclipse is a rare hybrid eclipse – that is, it will be an annular eclipse along the very first 15 seconds of its track and transition into a total eclipse as the Moon’s shadow sweeps closer to the Earth, covering the disk of the Sun along the remainder of its track.
The eclipse will start in the Caribbean Sea, north-east of the Antigua and Barbuda islands, on 3 November at 6 pm and 11 minutes 4 seconds local time and end at 2pm 51 minutes 4 seconds local time in the north-east side of the Algerian city Mecheria, in Africa. The annular phase of the eclipse will start in the Caribbean Sea, south-west of the Bermuda Island on November 3 at 6 pm 20 minutes 16 seconds local time and end at 5pm 36 minutes 4 seconds local on the south-west side of Galkayo in Somalia, Africa. Totality will occur in the North Atlantic Ocean, to the southwest of the Liberian city of Greenville in Africa on 3 November at 11 pm 59 minutes 43 seconds local time.
Total solar eclipse will have the highest intensity, 1.017, and the maximum duration of totality, 1 min 45 sec, only in this area.
