2023's total solar eclipse

On April 20, 2023, a New Moon will eclipse the sun, but it will stumble. Slightly too far away from Earth on its elliptical orbit to fully cover all of the sun, the moon will for short time fail to cause a total solar eclipse. For a few seconds, a ring of fire will be visible from the Indian Ocean. However, by the time the moonshadow reaches the Western Australian town of Exmouth, the moon's disk will completely cover the sun to cause a total solar eclipse, albeit a short one. In fact, the 20,000 people eclipse chasers, expected in Exmouth — and those in cruise ships in the Indian Ocean — will experience around one minute of darkness in the day. Even at the point of greatest eclipse, just off the coast of Timor-Leste, only 76 seconds of totality will occur.
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