{"id":711549,"date":"2026-07-26T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711549\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:46:09","slug":"hexham-to-see-partial-solar-eclipse-from-sele-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711549\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexham to see partial solar eclipse from Sele Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  A partial solar eclipse will be visible from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexham-courant.co.uk\/local-news\/northumberland-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Northumberland<\/a> in August, with a free public viewing hosted at Sele Park in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexham-courant.co.uk\/news\/hexham\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hexham<\/a> on Wednesday, August 12, starting at 6pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The event is part of the Discovering Dark Skies exhibition and is presented by Queen&#8217;s Hall Arts, Kielder Observatory, Kielder Partnership, and Northumberland National Park Authority.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If the weather is clear, spectators will witness around 90 per cent of the Sun obscured by the Moon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For safe viewing, Northumberland National Park Authority will set up an 80mm Lunt solar scope.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson said: &#8220;Never look directly at the Sun, even during an eclipse when some of its intense light is blocked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Doing so can severely damage your eyes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We cannot guarantee a cloud-free experience, sadly, but it should be quite a spectacle.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The event is drop-in and free to attend, though attendees should book a ticket to help organisers manage attendance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The event will last two hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The partial solar eclipse is just one of several events taking place in Northumberland this summer to celebrate the region\u2019s dark skies and astronomy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Also running is the Discovering Dark Skies exhibition, open from July 18 to September 19.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The box office is open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 12pm and 1pm to 4pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bookings can be made by calling the box office at 01434 652477 or by emailing boxoffice@queenshall.co.uk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Guests can also visit the Queen&#8217;s Hall Arts website for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A partial solar eclipse will be visible from Northumberland in August, with a free public viewing hosted at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}