New Delhi: Birds fly as the moon partially covers the sun during the partial solar eclipse in New Delhi, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2022. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)Solar Eclipse 2022 Time in India, Solar Eclipse in India 2022: The partial solar eclipse or Surya Grahan on October 25 marks the last solar eclipse of the year. The eclipse will be visible from parts of Europe, Northern Africa and large parts of western and central Asia. Most of India should be able to view the solar eclipse, apart from some parts in the Northeast.
During a solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, stopping some of the Sun’s light from reaching our planet. Typically, there are three kinds of solar eclipses—total solar eclipse, annular eclipse and partial solar eclipse. During a total eclipse, the Moon will completely cover the Sun. During an annular solar eclipse, the Moon will not fully cover the Sun but will leave an edge visible. During a partial solar eclipse, like the one happening on October 25, the Sun will be partly covered by the Moon as it passes in front of it.
According to Time and Date, the partial solar eclipse will begin at 2.28 PM IST and the maximum eclipse will be at 4.30 PM. The table below shows at what time the eclipse will start and have its maximum in different Indian cities.
Location-wise partial solar eclipse in India. (Source: IIA, Bengaluru) An eclipse never comes alone. Typically, a solar eclipse happens around two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse. Today’s solar eclipse will be followed by a lunar eclipse that is scheduled to happen on November 8. Also, don’t worry if the eclipse is not visible from your city. You can watch it through the live stream below.
A partial solar eclipse on Tuesday evening enthralled stargazers, who pointed their telescopes towards the sun to watch the celestial event.
Astronomical telescopes at Hanle in Ladakh, Naintal in Uttarakhand and several amateur and professional astronomers watched the eclipse that began at 4.17 pm as the moon started covering the solar disc.
Watch the solar eclipse as seen from various parts of India here
You can watch views of the eclipse from many different parts of the world through the stream from Time and Date below.
The eclipse is now visible in Bengaluru. A live stream of the eclipse from a location in Bengaluru will soon begin in the window below.
These images of the solar eclipse were taken from Delhi.
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The eclipse is well under its way and is now clearly visible from many locations in India. You can watch the eclipse even if you live somewhere it isn’t visible by watching the feed on the window below.
The eclipse is now visible in many parts of India. Do remember that looking at the Sun directly during an eclipse is as unsafe as looking at it during a normal sunny day. Use specially-made eclipse glasses to look at the Sun. Sunglasses are not a replacement for these glasses. When using eclipse glasses, make sure that they comply to the ISO 12312-2 safety standards.
The last partial solar eclipse has now begun to be visible in Leh, Ladakh. Watch the IIA stream below to see feeds of the eclipse from Leh and Hanle in Ladakh.
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics’ (IIA) live stream of the eclipse from an observatory in Hanle, Ladakh, is live on the institute’s YouTube channel. The live stream will also feature a stream from Russia and Kazaksthan, where the eclipse is already in progress. The IIA is also hosting a live stream of the event in Kannada.
The solar eclipse is currently underway and is already visible in many European countries.
If you have wondered what a solar eclipse would look like on Mars, wonder no more. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the below video of Phobos, one Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. According to the American space agency, it is the most zoomed-in, highest frame-rate observation of a solar eclipse taken from the Martian surface.
According to astrologers, some temples remain closed during a solar eclipse or Surya Grahan because of “the amount of negative energy released” during it, which is. Click here to read more about the astrological significance of solar eclipses and ancient beliefs about them.
Around 1200 BC, scribes in Anyang in China recorded eclipses on oxen’ shoulder blades and tortoise shells, called oxen bones, according to NASA. “The Sun has been eaten, says on of the eclipse records. In the 1980s and 1990s, astronomers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory studied these records to research changes in our planet’s rotation.
The eclipses studied for this research occurred in 1226 BC, 1198 BC, 1172 BC, 1163 BC, and 1161 BC. If the Earth was rotating at the same speed it is now, these eclipses should have happened thousands of kilometres away from Anyang, according to NASA. Based on this, scientists concluded that the rotation of the Earth had slowed by 47-thousands of a second per day in the last 3,200 years.
Around 1200 BC, scribes in Anyang in China recorded eclipses on oxen’ shoulder blades and tortoise shells, called oxen bones, according to NASA. “The Sun has been eaten, says on of the eclipse records. In the 1980s and 1990s, astronomers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory studied these records to research changes in our planet’s rotation.
The eclipses studied for this research occurred in 1226 BC, 1198 BC, 1172 BC, 1163 BC, and 1161 BC. If the Earth was rotating at the same speed it is now, these eclipses should have happened thousands of kilometres away from Anyang, according to NASA. Based on this, scientists concluded that the rotation of the Earth had slowed by 47-thousands of a second per day in the last 3,200 years.
According to NASA, the oldest human record of a solar eclipse dates back to November 30, 3340 BCE. This can be seen from a series of spiral, and circular petroglyphs (symbols carved into rock) discovered at the Loughcrew Megalithic Monument in County Meath, Ireland. Interestingly, archaeologists found the charred remains of nearly 50 individuals right next to the carvings.
Just weeks before the solar eclipse, a powerful, long-lasting “gamma-ray burst” swept over the planet. The cosmic blast probably happened due to the birth of a black hole. Read about that and more in our weekly space news recap.
If you want to watch a live stream of the eclipse from a location in India, you are in luck. The Indian Institute of Astrophysics is hosting a live stream of the eclipse from an observatory in Hanle, Ladakh, on its YouTube channel. The stream will begin at 4 PM IST and will go on till 5.30 PM IST.