{"id":269607,"date":"2025-03-29T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/experiencing-the-solar-system-for-yourself-sun-obscured-over-the-uk-in-partial-solar-eclipse\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:29:18","slug":"experiencing-the-solar-system-for-yourself-sun-obscured-over-the-uk-in-partial-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/experiencing-the-solar-system-for-yourself-sun-obscured-over-the-uk-in-partial-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Experiencing the solar system for yourself’: Sun obscured over the UK in partial solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK stargazers were treated to a partial solar eclipse on Saturday morning, a phenomenon that sees the sun partially obscured by the moon.<\/p>\n

Up to 40% of the sun was covered as the moon passed between the sun and Earth, partly obscuring the star.<\/p>\n

Members of the public gathered to watch the spectacle in Greenwich while thousands more followed online.<\/p>\n

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“It’s a different way of experiencing the mechanics of the solar system for yourself,” said Catherine Muller, an astronomer at Royal Observatory to Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“We know about it theoretically, we know that the moon orbits the Earth and they might pass by us but really getting to see it in a new and different way is quite exciting for a lot of people.”<\/p>\n

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Looking directly at the sun is dangerous so astronomers used glasses, solar telescopes and pinhole cameras to watch the event.<\/p>\n

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The eclipse was visible across several other parts of the world, including western Europe, Greenland, north-west Africa and north-east North America.<\/p>\n

For people in the southeast of England – where the weather meant the UK views were best – the peak of the eclipse was at around 11.03am.<\/p>\n

At that point, around 30-40% of the sun was obscured, according to the Royal Observatory.<\/p>\n

Northwest Scotland had the most coverage of the sun with 47.9% in Gallan Head, with Manchester getting 36.1% of coverage.<\/p>\n

Dover had the least coverage of the sun with only 28.1%.<\/p>\n

The next total solar eclipse is not for another 65 years in 2090, so Ms Muller recommends “making the most of the partial ones when they’re around”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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