For the uninitiated, a partial solar eclipse is when the Earth moves through the lunar penumbra as the Moon travels between the Earth and the Sun. It is referred to as “partial” because the Moon does not block the entire Sun when viewed from Earth. After Diwali on October 24, India will witness a partial solar eclipse that will also be visible over an area including Europe, the Middle East, northeastern parts of Africa, western Asia, the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Indian Ocean. However, you should not observe it with the naked eye, even for a short period of time, as it can cause serious damage to your eyes.
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• If you are pregnant, shouldn’t you watch the eclipse because it can harm your baby?
“It has to do with the false notion that harmful radiation is emitted during a total solar eclipse. Although electromagnetic radiation from the corona, seen as light, is perfectly safe, there is another form of radiation that travels to Earth from the Sun. Deep in the Sun’s interior, where nuclear fusion takes place to light the Sun, particles called neutrinos are born and are ejected from the Sun into space undisturbed.
They also pass through the solid body of the Moon during an eclipse and about a second later they reach Earth and pass through it too! Every second, your body is bombarded with trillions of these neutrinos regardless of whether the Sun is above or below the horizon. The only consequence is that every few minutes a few atoms in your body are converted to a different isotope by absorbing neutrinos. It is a completely harmless effect and will not harm you or the developing fetus if you are pregnant,” reveals NASA.
• Notice:
DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN or look through binoculars, even with a specialized filter, unless you really know what you are doing if you happen to be in the viewing area of this or any other solar eclipse.
• Are eclipses a harbinger of something very bad to happen?
“A classic case of what psychologists call Confirmation Bias is that we tend to remember all the occasions when two things happened together, but forget all the other times they didn’t. This gives us a biased view of cause and effect that we easily remember because the human brain is prone to looking for and remembering patterns that can be used as rules for survival. Total solar eclipses are not often recorded in the historical record, but tend to be recorded when they coincide with other historical events.
For example, in 763 BCE, early Assyrian records mention an eclipse in the same passage as an uprising in the city of Ashur, now known as Qal’at Sherqat in Iraq, suggesting that the ancients linked the two in their minds. Or when King Henry I of England, son of William the Conqueror, died in 1133, the event coincided with a total solar eclipse. With a little work, you can also find many instances where something good has happened!” claims NASA.
•Interesting fact about solar eclipse
According to University of Dallas physics professor Richard Olenick, PhD, local animals and birds often prepare to sleep or act confused during the eclipse, and local temperatures often drop 20 degrees or more near totality.
•Will the eclipse poison any food that is prepared during the event?
NASA scientists debunk the myth by saying, “Related to the false idea of harmful solar rays is that during a total solar eclipse, there is some kind of radiation that will spoil your food. If that were the case, the same radiation would damage the food in your pantry or the crops in the field. The basic idea is that total solar eclipses are scary and their ghostly green coronas look scary, so it’s only natural that you want to make up scary stories about them and look for coincidences in the events around you. If someone accidentally gets poisoned by eating potato salad during an eclipse, some might argue that the event was related to the eclipse itself, even though hundreds of other people in the same location were not affected at all.
•Safe to watch the solar eclipse with sunglasses? Here’s what NASA says
NASA says that except when the Moon completely blocks the Sun during a total eclipse, it can be dangerous to look directly at the Sun and recommends using special eye protection for viewing the Sun.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shantanu Sharma said the solar eclipse will be seen from 4:27 pm to 5:39 pm on Tuesday when devotees will reach Brahma Sarovar, Sannihit Sarovar, Jyotisar Tirtha, Pehowa Tirtha and other places in the district.
•When will a partial solar eclipse occur? Find out the duration, timings by city, when and where to watch
Partial Solar Eclipse 2022: A partial solar eclipse will take place after Diwali 2022. Most parts of the country will be able to witness the eclipse.
•Discover the Indian cities that will witness the partial eclipse and Surya Grahan Sutak time
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