Over the next couple of weeks two eclipses will be taking place. 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.

Royal Observatory Greenwich will host a livestream of the partial solar eclipse on their YouTube page (opens in new tab). The livestream will begin at 5:05 a.m. EDT (0905 GMT) on Tuesday (Oct. 25 ).

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. Even if you don’t live in these areas, you’ll luckily be able to watch the partial solar eclipse online thanks to several free livestreams. We will also host it free here at Space.com.

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%.

This map of the partial solar eclipse of Oct. 25, 2022 was created by eclipse scientist Fred Espenak of EclipseWise.com (opens in new tab). The yellow line is the path of greatest eclipse, with the green line showing the extant of visibility to the south. Parts of Greenland and Iceland are positioned for the first encounter with the eclipse. (Image credit: Fred Espenak, EclipseWise.com/Google Maps)

Oct. 25 Solar Eclipse Photos

(Image credit: NOAA)

If you take a photo of the last solar eclipse of 2022 let us know! You can send images and comments to [email protected].

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.

A photograph of a partial solar eclipse seen above the clouds. (Image credit: Phillip Jones/Getty Images)

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.

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.