A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Thursday, April 20, 2023,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0132.

[2] Totality occurs between the annularity paths across the surface of the Earth, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

[4] Occurring about 4.1 days after perigee (on April 16, 2023, at 3:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.

[5][6] Totality for this eclipse was visible in the North West Cape peninsula and Barrow Island in Western Australia, eastern parts of East Timor, as well as Damar Island and parts of the province of Papua in Indonesia.

[7] A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Antarctica, Australia, Oceania, and Southeast Asia.

More than 20,000 people watched the eclipse from the town of Exmouth on Western Australia's North West Cape.

Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee).