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Liam Buckler

Solar eclipse 2022: How to watch April lunar event online in the UK

This weekend is set to bring the first solar eclipse of 2022 - with UK viewers able to watch live from the comfort of their home own.

Tomorrow, April 30, there is a partial solar eclipse which will be visible over parts of the Antarctica, South America and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

And whilst UK sky watchers won't be able to see the partial solar eclipse in person, they can watch a livestream of the event online from their own home.

The partial solar eclipse of April 2022 will first be visible at (18.45GMT), with the maximum eclipse happening not long after, at (20.41GMT) and the eclipse will end at (22.37GMT).

A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun and partly blocks the sun as it appears from Earth.

This gives the sun a crescent shape - if a "bite" had been bitten out of the sun.

Tomorrow's eclipse will be the first of two partial solar eclipses in 2022, with the second expected October 25 (Getty Images)

According to NASA, a portion of the sun blocked by the moon depends on the sky watchers location as a maximum 64% of the sun's disk is blocked by the moon as seen from just south of the southern tip of South America.

And for UK viewers there will be a livestream of the event available to view online with the YouTube channel YouTube Gyaan ki gareebi Live who will begin broadcasting the solar eclipse at (1745 GMT) .

A partial solar eclipse which will be visible over parts of Antarctica, South America and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Tomorrow's eclipse will be the first of two partial solar eclipses in 2022, with the second expected October 25, but unfortunately, we won't see another total solar eclipse until 2023.

Although, just two weeks later on May 16, there is a total lunar eclipse, which is when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow.

It can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are very closely aligned with Earth between the other two - and only on the night of a full moon.

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