Solar Eclipse 2025 Today HIGHLIGHTS: Skywatchers across nothern hemisphere gear up to witness partial Solar Eclipse

These 3 tips can help you stunning images during the partial Solar Eclipse. But before you point your smarphone camera directly at the Sun, make sure to use a solar filter above it to prevent damange to both your eyes and the camera lens.

1. Apart from the Sun, you can also take photos of your surroundings. When the moon moves in front of the Sun, the whole landscape looks a lot different, especially places where light can filter down through tree leaves.

2. When capturing the Solar Eclipse, make sure that you are using the primary camera and not the ultrawide lens, as it will make the Sun appear smaller. If your phone has a telephoto shooter, you can try that as well.

3. Most smartphone cameras can easily adjusting to the lighting conditions, but if you are familiar with camera settings, make sure to fiddle around with the focus, shutter speed and ISO to get even better photos.

Solar Eclipses are beautiful to watch, but before you head out and stare into the Sun, be sure you are not directly looking at it as it may damage your eyesight. Viewing any part of the Sun through a camera lens, telescope, pair of binoculars or some solar filters is likely to cause an eye injury.

This holds true especially for a partial Solar Eclipse, since the Sun won't be fully covered by the Moon. Before watching any Solar Eclipse, make sure you look at the Sun using solar viewing glasses, also known as Eclipse glasses or use a handheld solar viewer.

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At the greatest point of the partial Solar Eclipse, the Moon will cover almost 93 per cent of the Sun at sunrise in the Nunavik, which lies on the eastern side of Hudson Bay in nothern Quebec. During this time, people living in this part of the world might experience a phenomenon called the "devil's horns", where the only visible part of the Sun will appear as a narrow cresent that resembles a pair of horns.

During a partial Solar Eclipse, the edge of the Moon's shadow, known as penumbra, swipes the Earth. However, the center of the shadow, called umbra, completely misses the Earth, leading to a partial Solar Eclipse instead of a total one. For those wondering, the point where the partial Solar Eclipse is the most visible is near the line that divides day and night sides of Earth. Astronomers call it 'the terminator'.

The upcoming partial Solar Eclipse will be prominently visible in Northeastern Canada in areas like Newfoundland and Labrador, where the Sun will be obscured up to 94 per cent, making it one of the best location to view the celestial phenomenon.

Like Canada, thoes living in Greenland will also witness a deep partial Solar Eclipse, where most of the sun will be hidden by the moon. In the United States, New Hampshire and Maine will see significant cover, with the latter witnessing 64 per cent obscuration at sunrise.

And while those living in Western European countries like UK, France and Germany wil be able to witness the event, London and Paris will have around 30 per cent and 23 per cent obscuration rate.