Twenty-five students, teachers, general museum visitors and media personnel watched the partial solar eclipse from the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) rooftop on Tuesday.
The last solar eclipse of 2022 occurred in the afternoon of October 25 and lasted for about 12 minutes after sunset. It was visible in most parts of India and several other countries.
The cosmic experience began at 4.52pm, and it was at its peak at 5.01 pm.
‘Popular Talk on Solar Astrophysics’, by Dr. S. Krishna Prasad, assistant professor, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, was telecast on the BITM YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/c4wgAA8KyiE, from 3pm.
Guided by professor Shibu Mathew from the Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO), Rajasthan, this partial eclipse of the sun, livestreamed from USO, Physical Research Laboratory, was also telecast by BITM, Kolkata at https://youtu.be/qjwUh4jJdl0, from 4.30pm.
The next partial solar eclipse will occur on March 29, 2025.