Today, at dawn on Saturday, December 24, 2022 AD, the International Astronomy Center’s Astronomical Seal Observatory was able to monitor and photograph a rare astronomical phenomenon observed from regions of the UAE, namely the disappearance of a star for 8 seconds; Due to the passage of an asteroid called “Thuli” (279 Thule) in front of a star called Taurus (HIP 20917); Where this phenomenon can only be monitored from certain areas located within a narrow band not exceeding 130 kilometers in width which crosses the southern half of the UAE and some neighboring countries, including parts of the Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Bahrain , northern Saudi Arabia, Jordan and southern Palestine. It so happened that this narrow strip passed over the Seals Astronomical Observatory in the Seals area in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
