Rare hybrid eclipse graces the sky

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(CNN) -- Some skygazers along the East Coast of North America witnessed a spectacular solar eclipse Sunday morning.

The eclipse was visible for a few minutes from parts of North America, South America, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

NASA said the eclipse would be one of the most interesting solar events of the year, because it was a hybrid annular-total eclipse. That means for part of its path, it was an annular eclipse -- where a thin ring of sunlight is visible around the moon's shadow -- and for another part, it was a total eclipse.

That phenomenon was only visible from a narrow band of the North Atlantic and equatorial Africa, NASA said. In a much broader area, viewers saw a partial eclipse. But photographers in the eastern United States liked what they saw.

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2 for the price of 1 :)

I'd have loved to set up my cams & portable scope for this. Oh, well.

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That is beautiful. I wish I could have seen it in person. 

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I imagine the simple folk of long ago would have been quaking in their boots. ;)

[CrashG]

I noticed it during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday