Lunar eclipse

The event will be visible from Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia on Tuesday.

In 2023, there will be two annular eclipses, which occur when the moon, sun and Earth are exactly in line but the moon is too far away to go around the sun, creating a bull’s-eye effect for observers. The next total eclipse in the United Kingdom is not until 2090. [The Virtual Telescope Project](https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2022/10/04/25-october-2022-partial-solar-eclipse-live-event-online/) will livestream the event from Rome. Massey said, so you’re able to see just the bite out of the moon as it comes in front of the sun. “People need to understand it is not safe to look at the sun,” Dr. For many, it will look like a cloud covering the sun. As the moon makes its orbit around Earth, and as Earth orbits around the sun, the moon gets caught in the middle and casts a shadow on Earth. The alignment between the moon and the sun is relatively rare. Because the moon’s orbit is slightly tilted, solar eclipses occur only when the moon crosses the plane of Earth’s orbit during a new moon. Because the moon is smaller than Earth, the moon’s shadow covers only a small part of Earth’s surface and is visible only from certain regions. [The eclipse will become visible first](https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/solar-and-lunar-eclipses-in-2022/) in Reykjavik, Iceland, at 8:58 a.m. in [Chelyabinsk](https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/russia/chelyabinsk) in Russia’s southern Ural region, which is expected to get 79 percent coverage, before waning in New Delhi at 5:30 p.m.

The four seasons, as you probably know, have to do with the tilt of the Earth on its axis and the Northern and Southern Hemispheres' orientation toward the sun.

[partial solar eclipse](/science/space/how-to-see-the-first-solar-eclipse-of-2022-take-a-bite-out-of-the-sun/) in the Southern Hemisphere on April 30, followed by a [total lunar eclipse](/science/space/how-to-see-a-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-turn-the-moon-red-today/) visible in parts of the Americas on May 16. The main things you'll need are clear skies and warm clothes to brave the late night/early morning chill. This time around we get Tuesday's partial solar eclipse proceeded by a blood moon full lunar coverup in the early hours of Nov. But eclipse seasons have to do with where the moon lines up between Earth and the sun. Eclipse seasons typically generate two or three eclipses in less than a 37-day span. During an eclipse season, the moon is basically buzzing around between us and the sun, upping the chances it will pass between our planet and the neighborhood star for a solar eclipse or that the Earth will block out the moon for a lunar eclipse.