The last solar eclipse of 2022 is Today

Source/ Joy Rao.

(Image credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL)

The new moon will orbit between the sun and the Earth, causing a partial eclipse of the sun.

Over the next couple of weeks two eclipses will be taking place. Early on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 8, the moon will plunge completely into the shadow of the Earth producing a total lunar eclipse that will be visible from North America as well as parts of South America, central and eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

But as a prelude, two weeks prior to this event, on Tuesday, Oct. 25, the new moon will orbit between the sun and the Earth, causing a partial eclipse of the sun to take place. 

To produce this upcoming solar eclipse, the moon's shadow will scrape the north polar regions of Earth. It will be visible from an eastern slice of Greenland and all of Iceland, as well as most of Europe (except Portugal and the western and southern portions of Spain), northeast Africa and over much of western and central Asia.

Greatest eclipse – with nearly seven-eighths of the sun's diameter (86.2%) hidden – occurs at local sunset over the West Siberian Plain near the city of Nizhnevertovsk (pop. 260,000), one of the wealthiest cities in Russia.

The rest of the eclipse zone will see less of the sun covered. For much of eastern Europe, including western Russia, Finland, and northern portions of Sweden and Norway, as well as Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir in India, more than 60% of the sun's diameter will be covered by the passing new moon. 

Across east-central Europe, including Denmark, Poland, Romania, the Balkans as well as most of the Middle East and western India, the eclipse magnitude diminishes to 40% to 60%.

For Iceland, as well as much of the United Kingdom, Germany, eastern France, Italy, Greece, Egypt and southwest India, the magnitude diminishes further, down to 40% percent, while for western France, northeast Spain, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, less than 20% of the sun's diameter will be eclipsed.

Image credit: NOAA

In fact, for some cases such as Valencia, Spain and Algiers, Algeria, the edge of the moon will only cause a barely perceptible dent on the upper part of the sun's disk; Madrid is just outside the eclipse zone and will not see anything. Portugal is the only European country that will be shut-out of the event, being situated just outside of the eclipse visibility zone.

For those locations where more than half of the sun's diameter will be covered it is debatable whether this will be enough to noticeably dim the sky and landscape. But some might still attempt to record the gradual fading and recovery of the sunlight with sensitive photographic exposure meters. These can be set to view a light-colored wall that directly faces the partially eclipsed sun.

Greatest eclipse – with nearly seven-eighths of the sun's diameter (86.2%) hidden – occurs at local sunset over the West Siberian Plain near the city of Nizhnevertovsk (pop. ~260,000), one of the wealthiest cities in Russia.

The rest of the eclipse zone will see less of the sun covered. For much of eastern Europe, including western Russia, Finland, and northern portions of Sweden and Norway, as well as Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir in India, more than 60% of the sun's diameter will be covered by the passing new moon. 

Across east-central Europe, including Denmark, Poland, Romania, the Balkans as well as most of the Middle East and western India, the eclipse magnitude diminishes to 40% to 60%. 

For Iceland, as well as much of the United Kingdom, Germany, eastern France, Italy, Greece, Egypt and southwest India, the magnitude diminishes further, down to 40% percent, while for western France, northeast Spain, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, less than 20% of the sun's diameter will be eclipsed. 

In fact, for some cases such as Valencia, Spain and Algiers, Algeria, the edge of the moon will only cause a barely perceptible dent on the upper part of the sun's disk; Madrid is just outside the eclipse zone and will not see anything. Portugal is the only European country that will be shut-out of the event, being situated just outside of the eclipse visibility zone.

For western Europe this is a morning event; midday for central Europe and early afternoon for eastern Europe.  Going farther east, over western Russia and India, the eclipse occurs during the late-day hours with sunset intervening for some before the show concludes. Across central India, for instance, maximum eclipse will coincide with sunset, while farther to the east, the moon will only begin its encroachment onto the sun's disk as it sets.

Unlike a total eclipse of the sun, concentrating its excitement into a few fleeting minutes, a partial eclipse can be watched easily from wherever one happens to be. Observations can be made with the naked eye, binoculars, or telescopes of any size. Of course, during any direct observation of the eclipse, eye or camera must be protected by dense filters from the intense light and heat of the focused solar rays. Keep in mind that the sun is no less dangerous to look at during a partial eclipse than it is on a normal sunny day. Unless the sun is very low and appears dull red, don't be tempted to squint at the spectacle or steal unsafe glances just because part of the sun's surface is blocked by the moon.

October 2022 solar eclipse times for 10 cities

City, Country	Eclipse Begins	Maximum Eclipse	Eclipse Ends
London, U.K	10:09 a.m.	10:59 a.m.	11:51 a.m.
Berlin, Germany	11:10 a.m.	12:14 a.m.	1:19 p.m.
Paris, France	11:13 a.m.	12:03 p.m.	12:55 p.m.
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia	11:27 a.m.	11:59 a.m.	12:29 p.m.
Cairo, Eqypt	12 p.m.	1:09 p.m.	2:16 p.m.
Moscow, Russia	12:25 p.m. .	1:39 p.m.	2:51 p.m.
Kyiv, Ukraine	1:23 p.m.	2:37 p.m.	3:50 p.m.
Tel Aviv, Israel	12: 58 p.m.	2:11 p.m.	3:22 p.m.
Delhi, India	4:29 p.m.	5:30 p.m.	not visible
Karachi, Pakistan	3:58 p.m.	5:02	not visible