Partial Solar Eclipse: 22 September 2025

This week on Monday is a New Moon and it will also be a Partial Solar Eclipse on 22 September 2025. You will have to be up before sunrise to view this solar eclipse as it will be at sunrise, and fingers crossed the horizon is clear and not in cloud.

Partial Solar Eclipse: 22 September 2025

Monday 22nd September, on the New Moon, there will be a Partial Solar Eclipse visible from Norfolk Island. This will start as the sun rises at 5.38am, the partial eclipse starts at 5.37am and ends at 6.43am. Fingers crossed the horizon is clear if you are out early to watch the sunrise and Partial Solar Eclipse.

The Partial Solar Eclipse will be on Monday 22 September or Sunday 21 September 2025 (depending on your time zone).

Never look directly at the Sun.

Always protect your eyes if viewing solar eclipse and do not look at the sun without protection. Never look directly at the Sun. You can seriously hurt your eyes and even go blind. Proper eye protection, like eclipse glasses or a special solar filter, is the only safe option. Sunglasses don't work.

I have viewed a couple of solar eclipses and partial eclipses in New Zealand and here on Norfolk Island in recent years. There are more difficult to photograph as you need to have special lens solar protectors. It is always strange when the day darkens, and this can confuse birds as the sun is blocked by the moon.

For more details, check out this internet site:

22 Sep 2025 – Partial Solar Eclipse in Norfolk Island

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/norfolk-island?iso=20250921

Two weeks ago, there was a Total Lunar Eclipse on Monday 8 September 2025, which was paired with this week’s Partial Solar Eclipse, which is shown on graphs across a southern region of the globe on Sunday 21 September or Monday 22 September 2025 (depending on your time zone).

Total Lunar Eclipse Monday 8 September 2025

On the early morning of September 8, the full moon moved into the shadow of Earth and appear completely black, surrounded by a glowing orange-red ring. Norfolk Island, New Zealand and areas of Australia were in the regions able to view the total lunar eclipse in the southern sky, if their skies were clear on the early hours of the morning. Once the sun rose at 5.55am, the eclipse faded as the Totality ended. Here on Norfolk Island the Total Lunar Eclipse was from 4.30am to 5.52am.

Attached are a few images of solar eclipse and diagrams explaining solar eclipses. In 2011, when I first arrived on Norfolk Island, there was a partial eclipse of the sun, and the full eclipse was seen at Cape York in Australia. I took a few photos of the 2011 Solar Eclipse here on Norfolk Island when the eclipse was almost a Full Solar Eclipse.

If the skies are clear, It is always rewarding to look up at the stars at night and enjoy Our Norfolk Island Magical Dark Skies.

If its Dark – Look for Stars!!!

Our Norfolk Island Magical Dark Skies

Betty Matthews

19 September 2025