Solar eclipse in Norway on Tuesday 25 October 2022 – time and weather conditions in the regions and cities – NRK Troms and Finnmark
On Tuesday, there will be a solar eclipse in Norway, which will at most cover 73 percent of the solar disk.
Most recently last year was there a solar eclipse in this country, but this time it will be bigger. The last time there was a total solar eclipse in Norway was in 2015, and it took place on Svalbard.
Astrophysicist Tor Einar Aslesen of the Norwegian Astronomical Society was himself present during that solar eclipse. This time he will stay at home in Eastern Norway.
– There is another big shell of the sun that will be covered throughout Norway. But Longyearbyen can only barely see it this time.
– Do not look at the sun without protection
Although there will not be a total solar eclipse this time, the conditions in Norway are basically good, he says.
– Eastern Finnmark receives the greatest coverage of the sun. In Kirkenes, there will be more than 62 per cent of the sun. It is also quite good in Tromsø, which gets 56 percent coverage.
– For Oslo’s part, there will be around 40 per cent coverage in the middle of the day, and roughly the same in Western Norway.
You can read about the weather conditions further down in the case.
Aslesen goes on to say that it is currently sun spotsand these can be seen with a good camera, for example.
But he has a clear message for those of you who want to see the phenomenon with your own eyes:
– Do not look directly at the sun! Neither with eyes, with a camera or telescope. You must have a filter. Solar eclipse filters are the best, regardless of field of use.
– And you shouldn’t wear ordinary sunglasses either, he adds.
Looking at the sun during a solar eclipse is no more dangerous than otherwise, but you should generally not open your eyes to the sun over time. The reason is ultraviolet rays, which can be harmful to the eyes.
– Solar eclipse glasses can be used, but you should check that they are approved.
If you have a telescope, you can see that it has a slightly jagged edge when it goes in front of the sun, because of the mountains and craters that are there, he explains.
Make your own projector
If you don’t have suitable glasses or filters lying around, Aslesen says that you can easily make a smart projector from a simple cardboard sheet.
– Then you make a small hole in the cardboard, aim it at the sun, and then you actually get a small picture of the solar eclipse on the wall. It is an optical phenomenon, he explains.
The hole must be very small, no bigger than the tip of a ballpoint pen, says the astrophysicist. He thinks it’s something you should get with you if you get the chance.
– It makes you feel like part of the cosmos. Watching one globe go before another is always fascinating.
This is how it will be
If you want to see the solar eclipse, it is of course a prerequisite to be able to see the sun. So how are the conditions?
– It is probably Nordmøre, Trøndelag and parts of northern Norway that will get the best conditions as it looks now, says meteorologist Trond Robertsen.
Regarding the latter, he says that it is the area from Bodø and north to the Nordkapp that has the best forecasts. Western Norway and Eastern Norway do not have equally good prospects.
– Western Norway south of Stad, as well as Sunnmøre and Romsdal, can probably expect quite a lot of rain, according to the forecasts. There is also some gray weather and rain in Southern and Eastern Norway.
But don’t give up hope, is the meteorologist’s advice. The two low systems that threaten the possibilities may change direction. And hulls can always appear in the cloud cover.
– We cannot predict that, says Robertsen.