{"id":736876,"date":"2026-08-13T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736876\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:02:09","slug":"crowds-in-awe-as-solar-eclipse-takes-over-souths-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736876\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds in awe as solar eclipse takes over South&#8217;s sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People across the south of England looked up at the sky in awe on Wednesday night, as the region experienced a solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 90% of the Sun was covered by the Moon for much of the region, making it the most coverage seen from the UK and Ireland since the 1999 eclipse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In some areas, including at Hengistbury Head in Dorset, crowds assembled for special events to witness the astronomical phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight enjoyed perfect clear skies, giving people there an unrivalled view as the eclipse peaked shortly after 19:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some had been successful in getting hold of solar eclipse glasses, but the vital eye protectors were in short supply in the run-up to the event with most selling out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But that did not deter people, with colanders, cereal boxes and pieces of paper all deployed to witness the event &#8211; which was described by scientists as &#8220;once in a generation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People across the south of England looked up at the sky in awe on Wednesday night, as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736876","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=736876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}