On Sunday, we watched a rare hybrid solar eclipse. I joined one of the missionary families and lots of little Ugandan people. We made our way to the field behind Mt. Elgon Hotel. Fortunately, we had 2 pairs of solar glasses that we took turns viewing through. Unfortunately, the clouds were in the was a lot of the time. But fortunately, we had a soccer game going so we barely noticed.
In case you wanted to know a bit more, I took this from Huffington post:
However, as pointed out by the renowned Belgian eclipse calculator, Jean Meeus, the hybrid eclipse of Nov. 3 will be a special case: here the eclipse starts out as annular, then after only 15-seconds it will transition to a total eclipse, and then it remains total up to the very end of the eclipse path. The last time this happened was on Nov. 20, 1854 and the next such case after 2013 will occur on Oct. 17, 2172.
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