Residents of Dushanbe can watch the partial solar eclipse today afternoon.

“The initial phase of the eclipse falls on 3:23 pm local times and its final phase falls on 5:30 pm local time,” Ms. Gulchehra Qohirova, Director of the Institute of Astrophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, told Asia-Plus in an interview.  

“The maximum phase will be at 4:09 pm and its maximum point in Dushanbe 16 hours 9 minutes.  At its maximum point in Dushanbe 75 percent of  the Sun will be eclipsed by the Moon,” Ms. Qohirova noted.

At the same time, she noted that since it is cloudy today, it is likely that this natural phenomenon will not be seen.    

The solar eclipse of October 25, 2022 was a partial solar eclipse it was visible from Europe, the Urals and Western Siberia, Central Asia, Western Asia, South Asia and from the north-east of Africa. At its maximum point in Russia precisely 82% of the Sun was eclipsed by the Moon.

From Western Europe it appeared to be around 15-30% eclipsed.  It was visible between 08:58 UTC, the greatest point of total solar eclipse occurred at 11:00 UTC and it ended at 13:02 UTC.  The maximal phase of the partial eclipse was recorded on West Siberian Plain in Russia near Nizhnevartovsk.

A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.