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Ammon News - Dr. Ammar Al-Sakji, The President of the Jordanian Astronomical Society, said that the world will see a partial solar eclipse on Tuesday, 25 October.

He added that the partial eclipse begins in Amman at 12:59 pm, which is the moment at which the first apparent contact between the moon’s disk and the sun’s disk begins, meaning that the moon then gradually begins to block the sun’s disk, up to the peak of the partial eclipse, which is expected to be at 2:13 pm on Tuesday afternoon.

The maximum occultation rate of the sun reaches 34.8%, after which the partial eclipse begins to decline gradually until it ends at 3:23 pm, which is the last contact between the moon’s disk and the sun’s disk, Dr.Al-Sakji added.

Dr. Al-Sakji warned of the danger of looking directly at the sun’s disk during the eclipse period. As it exposes the retina to severe damage due to the ingress of various radiations (visible light, ultraviolet and infrared rays) that may cause temporary or permanent blindness, he also warned against the use of sunglasses of all kinds, X-ray sheets, welding glass, automobile tarnish papers or manufactured glasses Individually, without supervision and not subject to examination and global standards, which are very harmful, so he called for the use of only eclipse glasses, which are designated for such astronomical phenomena.