The world attends the first eclipse

DOHA:

The Qatar Calendar House announced that this year 2019 will witness many solar phenomena monitored by scientists and will attract astronomers, as the world's population will have a date to observe and see the first solar eclipse of the year, Sunday, which coincides with the middle point Coupling of the month of Jumada I 1440 AH.

The solar eclipse will be a partial eclipse of the Sun because the Moon will block 71.5% of the entire solar disk at the peak of the solar eclipse, said Dr. Bashir Marzouk, astronomer of the Qatari calendar. The center of each of the three celestial bodies (the sun, the earth, and the moon) on a straight line, and the moon in the middle, then blocks the entire disk of the sun in the event of total eclipse or blocks a portion of the solar disk in partial eclipse case..

The solar eclipse will take place in Northeast Asia, Japan, the Pacific, Russia, Mongolia, North Korea and parts of the United States, while the inhabitants of Qatar and Arab countries do not can not observe solar eclipses. An eclipse will occur at dawn in these areas. In addition, these areas will not be on the way to the solar eclipse, but the inhabitants of these areas will be able to follow the partial eclipse through the live broadcast of the agency, space "NASA" , via the Agency's live broadcast site, Other.

Marzouk pointed out that this year's first solar eclipse will begin at 23:30 Doha local time, while the eclipse will culminate at 4:00 and 40:00 in the morning, and will end at the last partial eclipse. Sunday 6 and 40 hours. Doha local time, lasting four hours and six minutes and fifteen minutes at all stages.

The importance of solar eclipses and the lunar eclipse is that it confirms the accuracy of the astronomical calculations in the calculation of the Hijri calendar. The solar eclipse occurs at the moment of coupling (before the birth of the new moon), while the lunar eclipse takes place in the middle of the lunar month.).

It should be noted that this year will witness many important astronomical phenomena that can be seen and watched by the inhabitants of Qatar, where there will be three solar panels, Khasofan Qamarian, in addition to the rare transit of the planet Mercury from the solar disk in November of this year..

He advised the astronomer to use optical filters to look at the solar disk at the time of the total solar eclipse, as it can cause serious damage to the eye when the sun is out. it is seen directly to the naked eye, unlike lunar debris visible and monitored at the naked eye when they occur, as they are not taken into account. For the moon the time of the eclipse no damage to the eye.