Eclipse overshadows the UK
Greatest show on earth: This is the moment there was a total eclipse in the Faroe Islands this morning
View: The eclipse as seen from the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides, where people were able to see 98 per cent of the sun covered by the moon
Drama: This is the moment the Moon almost covered the sun in St Austell, Cornwall, this morning as millions watched the skies for the first eclipse of the century
Spiritual home: The most famous prehistoric monument in the world and a pagan shrine saw one of the best views of the eclipse
Start: The Moon begins to cross the sun above Leicester this morning as the eclipse began at around 8.24am this morning as millions watched the sky
Sequence: The progress of the eclipse as seen from Penzance is shown in these photographs taken at five-minute intervals
LIVE: SOLAR ECLIPSE FROM AROUND THE WORLD
The last solar eclipse of such significance occurred on August 11 1999, and was 'total' - with 100 per cent of the sun covered when seen from Cornwall.
Another 'deep' partial eclipse visible in the UK will not occur until August 12 2026, and the next total eclipse not until September 2090.
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.
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