best views of the eclipse<\/a> in the British Isles, despite some cloud cover.<\/p>\nMore than 250 astronomers had gathered with islanders to watch the event.<\/p>\n
Hall said: “Eclipse day in Alderney was a tease.<\/p>\n
“From the start there was cloud and uncertainty about what we would see.”<\/p>\n
He said the first half of the event was obscured by cloud which had helped to reduce the sun’s dazzle.<\/p>\n
“At 11:00 the temperature dropped sharply when totality was approaching,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The odds had been 50\/50 but at 11:16, the moment of totality, the cloud cleared.”<\/p>\n
The UK’s next total solar eclipse will not happen until 2090, according to Royal Museums Greenwich, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former BBC News correspondent Simon Hall reported from Alderney during the 1999 eclipse. The third-largest Channel Island had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734381","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\/734381","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=734381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}