A partial solar eclipse will be visible in the sky of Bangladesh on 9 March.

In the sky of Dhaka, the eclipse will start at the sunrise (6:12am) and the highest phase will be visible at 6:38am local time. The eclipse will end at 7:21am. A total eclipse will be visible from a number of Indonesian islands. Another partial solar eclipse will not be visible from Bangladesh until 26 December 2019, syas a press release.

‘A solar eclipse happens whenever the new moon passes in front of the sun, and the moon’s shadow falls on our planet’, says Shahjahan Mridha Benu, President of the Astronomy Section of Anushandhitshu Chokro.

Mridha also said that safe viewing methods must be used to observe the sun. Any attempt to view the Sun directly could result in instant blindness. A solar eclipse is not safe to observe with x-ray film, film negative or sunglasses. Eclipse viewers will need a safe solar filter to view the eclipse.

However, a ‘pinhole camera’ can be used to view the eclipse — where a pinhole of a few millimetres in diameter is punched in a paper or a cardboard, and held up so the sun’s image gets projected onto a wall or a screen.

Anushandhitshu Chokro (AChokro) Science Organisation has arranged a solar eclipse observation camp in Green Model town, Manda for this event. The camp activities will commence from 6:10am and will continue until the end of the eclipse. An 8 inch Meade telescope will be available to observe this phenomenon. The observation camps will be open for all. The emphasis of the camp will be on scientific literacy.

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