Rare Partial Solar Eclipse Is Viewed Around The UK

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 20: Rupert Smith from Flamsteed Astronomy Society adjusts a telescope outside The Royal Observatory Greenwich on March 20, 2015 in London, England. Hundreds of people gathered outside The Royal Observatory Greenwich hoping to see a partial solar eclipse. The solar eclipse, which occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, started at 08:24 GMT and continues until 10:41 GMT, with the maximum obscuration of the Sun happening at 09:31 GMT. The last significant solar eclipse visible from the UK was on 11 August, 1999. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)