Partial solar eclipse on Tuesday will be visible from Cyprus (Update)

A partial solar eclipse on Tuesday can be seen by enthusiasts in Cyprus. The eclipse, which will begin shortly before 1pm and last for two hours, will be visible over an area that includes almost all of Europe and Asia as far as the Indies, as well as Northeast Africa.

For amateur astronomers, astrophysicist Chrysanthos Fakas announced that the partial eclipse will begin at: 12:49:23; the middle of the eclipse and at the same time its maximum will occur at 14:03:41; and the end of the eclipse will be at 15:15:11. Locally, the magnitude of the partial eclipse will be 0.474.

An eclipse of a celestial body occurs when a third body intervenes between the other two. In this case the trio involved are the Sun, the Earth and the Moon, and alignments between them cause solar and lunar eclipses, some of the most impressive coincidences of our solar system. The phenomenon occurs for humans as we know it, because the apparent diameter of the Moon and Sun as seen from the Earth appears almost the same.