Good news for astronomy enthusiasts — the Earth is all set to witness its first solar eclipse of the year 2022! According to NASA, this cosmic event will take place on Saturday, April 30, at around 6:45 PM UTC.
The partial solar eclipse will not be visible in India. There will be a partial Solar Eclipse on Saturday, which will first of the year of 2022. It will be visible from from the south and south-western parts of South America, Pacific and Atlantic oceans and most of the land mass of Antartica.
According to Indian Standard Time (IST), the first solar eclipse of 2022 on April 30 will start around midnight at 12:15 a.m. and will last till 4:07 on the early morning of May 1. During this solar eclipse, the moon will hide only the outer part of the Sun's shadow and hence the eclipse is defined as a partial one.
Astronomers have called this solar eclipse a ‘Black Moon ’, which is an interesting phenomenon connected to some solar eclipses.In 2022, there will be two solar eclipses – the first one on April 30and the second one on October 25.
When is the Black Moon in 2022? The Black Moon in 2022 falls on Saturday 30 April 2022. As a new Moon, illumination will be at just 0.2 per cent, and it will be at a distance of 395,380km from the Earth.
On Saturday, April 30, the second new moon of April, nicknamed a 'black moon,' will occur. A new moon occurs when our natural satellite receives no light and the lunar disc is detectable. According to NASA, it will coincide with a partial solar eclipse that will be visible from Antarctica and parts of South America.
A rare occurrence that only happens roughly every 29 months, two alternative definitions of Black Moons, according to Timeanddate.com, include when there's no new moon in the month of February and when there are four new moons in a season — the Black Moon is the third new moon in that sequence.
At its "new moon" phase, the moon is always black. It happens at that time of the month when the moon passes through the same part of the sky as the sun and as such, the moon's dark or unilluminated side faces Earth. So there really is nothing to see.
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