If the weather is clear, people in the western parts of Shropshire might be able to witness a partial eclipse of the sun. While the USA experiences a total eclipse, Wales and west England will see the moon partially covering the sun's disk at sunset.
If you are lucky and it is not cloudy you might get to see a tiny partial eclipse of the sun in the western parts of Shropshire this evening.While parts of the USA will be plunged into darkness as the moon travels between the earth and the sun, Wales and the west of Shropshire could get to see the moon take a nibble out of the sun's disk at sunset.
"From a weather perspective there will be cloud and rain pushing through your area today, there is a chance there could be some breaks in the cloud later at around the time of sunset, however cloud to the west may obstruct sunset.Astronomers say everywhere west of a line from Fowey in Cornwall to Northumberland might just get a view of the Moon biting the edge of the Sun as it disappears over the horizon. But you will have to be high up to see it as the sun will be low in the horizon.
The total solar eclipse will plunge much of North America into darkness, turning the day skies into night. The cosmic event will see flares of the Sun's corona appear like a diamond ring in the sky. Professor Don Pollacco, from the University of Warwick's Department of Physics, said that from Glasgow about 12 per cent of the Sun will be obscured at around 8pm .Dr Edward Bloomer, senior astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said the UK is only going to get"a small grazing" of the eclipse in the west and north of the country.
From Mexico the total eclipse will last 4.5 minutes, and while this does not seem long, the maximum eclipse length possible is about 7-8 minutes.
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