Solar eclipse October 25, 2022 | Live updates

The solar eclipse on Tuesday will be visible from 5.14 p.m. in India.

A partial solar eclipse has begun in Iceland on Tuesday, October 25 and will end off the coast of India at around 6:30 pm. It will be best visible in parts of western Russia and Kazakhstan but will also be witnessed in some Indian cities.

A press release issued by the Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre said the partial eclipse could be viewed in Chennai, but with little visibility, beginning at 5.14 p.m. and ending at 5.44 p.m. Bengaluru will witness the solar eclipse for about 45 minutes. Only 10% of the eclipse will be visible between 5.12 pm to 5.49 pm.

While in certain parts of Russia and Kazakhstan the visibility would be 80%, the partial eclipse would also be visible in most parts of Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. The solar eclipse is a partial one, visible over India, except for a large area of the North-eastern States.

According to the Ministry of Earth Science, the obscuration of the sun by the moon will be between 40% and 50% at the time of maximum eclipse in north-western parts of the country while in other parts of the country, the percentage will be lesser.

The Ministry said that eclipsed sun should not be viewed with the naked eye, even for a very short time. “It will cause permanent damage to the eyes, leading to blindness even when the moon covers most portions of the sun. The safe technique to observe the solar eclipse is by either using a filter like aluminized Mylar, black polymer, welding glass of shade number 14 or by making projection of the sun’s image on a whiteboard by telescope,” it added.

Here are the images from the eclipse on Tuesday:

Man looks at eclipse in Mathura through exposed x-ray film. (see below)