A rare hybrid eclipse of the sun will be on view for most of the East Coast early Sunday morning, CBS News reported.
For 15 seconds, the eclipse will be an annular eclipse, where the moon doesn't completely cover the sun, with a "ring of fire" forming about 621 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla.
The United States along with parts of Europe and Africa will see the annular eclipse, according to USA TODAY. The partial eclipse should be visible around 6:30 a.m. along the East Coast, with a large part of the sun blocked from view in New York and Boston.
The eclipse, which will be the last of the year, will transition to a total eclipse, where the moon completely covers the sun. The total eclipse will be full for parts of the Atlantic Ocean and central Africa.
The hybrid eclipse is one of only 569 during the period from 1999 B.C. to year 3000 A.D. There will be a total of 11,898 solar eclipses in this period, according to NASA's Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses.
The next time a total solar eclipse will be visible in the U.S. is Aug. 21, 2017.
The solar eclipse will probably be best seen from the southeastern U.S., as clear weather is predicted for Sunday, according to AccuWeather. Skies are expected to be cloudier farther north with rain and snow showers likely to block the sky in some of the Northeast and New England.
Eye protection is necessary to view this or any solar eclipse, according to EarthSky.org, which warns that "blindness or severe eye injury is possible without protection."
"Use only glasses designed specifically for eclipse viewing or welder's glass No. 14," said David Dickinson of Universe Today.
Sunday's eclipse will be live streamed from the Slooh Space Camera in Kenya.
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