APRIL 2023 OBSERVING Celestial Calendar by Bob King A Touch-and-Go Solar Eclipse This unusual event will entice eclipse chasers willing to travel. This stunning composite image shows the July 2, 2019, total solar eclipse as captured from the European Southern Observatory's La Silla site, in Chile. From this location, the 2019 event was similar to how this April's eclipse will appear. Baily's Beads and solar prominences are especially spectacular when the size of the Sun and the lunar disk are closely matched, as they are in this photo and as they will be again this April. 48 APRIL 2023 * SKY & TELESCOPE