How can you see the last partial solar eclipse of 2022?
This morning, the 25th of October, the Moon will pass over part of the Sun, resulting in the last partial solar eclipse of 2022.
There is something magical about a solar eclipse, even a partial one. Although modern astronomy explains it nicely to every school child, part of us still likes to wonder with an ancient sense of awe at something so incredible as the light of the sun being blotted out in the middle of the day.
The final solar eclipse of 2022 will be visible today from most of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and western parts of Asia. It will not be visible from North America, South America, or Australia.
How much of the sun will be visible?
Beginning at 10:08 a.m. BST (6:08 a.m. ET), viewers in the UK will be able to see the moon’s silhouette pass over the top left side of the sun, reaching its maximum point at 10:59 a.m. local time.
At its peak, the eclipse will obscure 15% of the sun’s visible surface.
Further east, the effect will be much more pronounced with 86.2% of the sun blocked from view in Russia’s Western Siberia Plain, near the city of Nizhnevartovsk.
A swathe of the planet from the Nordic countries all the way down to northwest India will have a 60% eclipse to wonder at, while Iceland, Germany, eastern France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt will get a 40% view of one of the greatest wonders in nature.
Can we find out any more about the eclipse?
Britain’s Royal Observatory Greenwich will be live-streaming the partial solar eclipse via the Annie Maunder Astrographic Telescope in a livestream presented by astronomer Jake Foster, so everyone can check out what is happening from anywhere on the planet.