STORY: This is what the sun looked like over Turkey at times on Tuesday. Here onlookers could watch the partial solar eclipse well. The prerequisite for this: there must be as few clouds as possible in the sky. During a partial solar eclipse, the moon moves between the sun and the earth, blocking part of the sunlight. This time the spectacle was best seen in Northeast Africa, the Middle East, Europe and West Asia. These young women in Turkey were impressed: “I’ve never seen a solar eclipse. And I was a bit scared because solar eclipses used to trigger natural disasters like earthquakes. But it’s a very exciting natural phenomenon.” “I have never experienced a solar eclipse. It’s such a fascinating feeling. I would like to experience it again. I would especially like to see a total solar eclipse. The people in Jerusalem were also able to observe the partial solar eclipse very well. They were asked to do so , not to look directly at the sun, so as not to injure your eyes. There are two to four solar eclipses a year somewhere in the world. The next total solar eclipse in Germany is not expected until 2081.