Friday, 20 March 2015

Millions across Britain stop to watch the first solar eclipse of the century

Watching: Children from St Ursula's School in Greenwich looking at the eclipse from the Greenwich Observatory

Today's eclipse produced a 100-mile-wide 'totality' shadow path that crossed the North Atlantic and covers only two land masses, the Faroe Islands between Scotland and Iceland and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Away from this path the sun was partly obscured. A partial eclipse was visible across a large part of the northern hemisphere, including the whole of Europe, Greenland, Newfoundland, northern Africa and western Asia.

A group standing by the Clifton Observatory in Bristol took turns to look through their giant pinhole camera and a piece of welding glass. Robin Neville, 25, said it had taken around an hour to make the contraption. See more image below....


Before and After
  

Lining up: Spectators at the Eden Project watch the eclipse with their special glasses

As it happened: Pictures from Falmouth show the partial eclipse from start to finish

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