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

Millions of people will be able to watch this weekend's solar eclipse from the comfort of their own sitting room. This Saturday, April 30, brings the first solar eclipse of 2022 and will be visible around the world including Antarctica, South America and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Unfortunately people in the UK won't see the partial eclipse with their own eyes - however, you will be able to watch it via livestream on the night, reports the Mirror. The partial solar eclipse of April 2022 will first be visible at 6.45pm, with the maximum eclipse happening not long after, at 8.41pm and the eclipse will end at 10.37pm.

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.

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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. 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 5.45pm.

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

However, 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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