{"id":736434,"date":"2026-08-13T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736434\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:30:17","slug":"hundreds-gather-to-watch-partial-eclipse-on-royston-hillside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736434\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather to watch partial eclipse on Royston hillside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts had urged eclipse watchers not to look directly at the Sun, warning that even brief exposure could cause lasting damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Specialist glasses had sold out at many retailers, including those recommended by UK health officials, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyqxx27620o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with Royal Museums Greenwich citing<\/a> an &#8220;unprecedented volume&#8221; of demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George Turrell, 20, from Letchworth, managed to find a pair and was on the heath with his partner Ebrielle Strickland, also 20, from Baldock, to see their first eclipse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described the eclipse as &#8220;rather interesting&#8221; but admitted there had been a &#8220;panic&#8221; to try and find a pair of safety glasses in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts had urged eclipse watchers not to look directly at the Sun, warning that even brief exposure could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736434","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\/736434","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=736434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}