Incredible solar eclipse graces British skies – the very best pictures of the once-in-a-generation event

Britons' eyes went skyward this evening as the most significant solar eclipse for 27 years graced UK skies. The moon blocked upwards of 90 per cent of the sun across much of the British Isles.The event will be the deepest partial eclipse visible from these…

Mukesh Gusaiana

12 Aug 2026 (Updated: 12 Aug 2026, 06:40 PM)

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Britons’ eyes went skyward this evening as the most significant solar eclipse for 27 years graced UK skies.

The moon blocked upwards of 90 per cent of the sun across much of the British Isles.

The event will be the deepest partial eclipse visible from these shores since the famous total eclipse of August 1999, when the path of totality swept across Cornwall.

Below are the very best pictures of the once-in-a-generation event.

$People observe the solar eclipse near Stonehenge in Wiltshire\u200b$

$\u200bThe sun over Canary Wharf in London, as the moon aligned with it$

$\u200bPeople at the capital's Primrose Hill, with eyes focused on the sky$

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