Solar Eclipse-Millions Of People Stopped By To Watch

UK skies began to darken at around 8.24am this morning as the Moon started to move between the city and the sun, with the eclipse peaking at around 9.30am across the country.

From the pictures below, cloud coverage means that millions across Britain were unable to see anything at all of the eclipse, the like of which will not be seen again for several decades. 

Meanwhile, the sun's light was almost totally concealed; casting a huge shadow of the Moon across the nation turning day briefly to night, but watchers could not look directly at the sun because they risked damaging their eyes.

In the Hebrides the sun was practically invisible as the Isle of Lewis experienced a 98 per cent eclipse, while the Faroe Islands saw a total eclipse.

It was also more like a melodrama for the children and students of St. Ursula School Greenwich who were not left behind as they watch the eclipse with observatory and solar filter glasses. Spectators at the Eden Project watch the eclipse with their special glasses

 

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