On Wednesday 12 August 2026, the UK sees a deep partial solar eclipse in the early evening, roughly between 6pm and 8pm BST. The Moon covers 88-96.5% of the Su…
Astronomer Royal Edmond Halley predicted this eclipse's path and timing to within about four minutes using Newtonian orbital mechanics, and published the first known map…
This total eclipse tracked from Galway in Ireland across south Wales and Devon, then east through Hampshire and Sussex -- passing just south of London and Greenwich, whi…
Observed by astronomer Francis Baily from Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, this annular eclipse is famous in astronomy for Baily's vivid description of 'a row of lucid…
Totality crossed the Llyn Peninsula and Snowdonia in north Wales, made landfall in England at Southport, then swept through Blackpool, Blackburn, Preston, Richmond, Midd…
The UK's most recent total solar eclipse. Totality swept across Cornwall, west Devon, the Isles of Scilly and Alderney; centreline duration near Land's End was 2 minutes…
The largest UK partial eclipse since 1999: London 84.5%, Cardiff 86.7%, Belfast 93.1%, Edinburgh 93.2%, Glasgow 93.7%, Aberdeen 94.0%, and Lerwick (Shetland) 96.9% -- th…
The Moon covers 88-96.5% of the Sun's disc across the UK, deepest in the far southwest (Isles of Scilly, Cornwall) and shallowest in northeast Scotland -- the opposite r…
A much shallower partial eclipse than 2026's event: up to about 48% coverage at the Isles of Scilly and roughly 42% in London, with only about 13% visible from Shetland.…
The next total solar eclipse visible from the British Isles falls on 23 September 2090 -- 64 years after the 2026 deep partial eclipse and 91 years after the UK's last t…
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