{"id":736989,"date":"2026-08-13T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736989\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:30:09","slug":"suffolk-builder-with-own-observatory-captures-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736989\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk builder with own observatory captures solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A builder who created an observatory in his back garden has said capturing and livestreaming the solar eclipse was &#8220;fantastic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Wallace became an avid follower of online astrophotographers while he was off work during Covid and now has a fully-automated rig at his home near Stowmarket, Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, he spent hours setting up his mobile gear in a rural spot with a clear view of the horizon so he could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hq7y4U2hZnc\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">livestream, external<\/a> the eclipse to his followers on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve not seen one like that before &#8211; I saw one in March last year, but it wasn&#8217;t as much of an eclipse as this, so for me it was really quite special,&#8221; he told Radio Suffolk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just an incredible thing to see &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t happen very often and it&#8217;s something everyone can enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even the weather played ball, we didn&#8217;t have any clouds, it was fantastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A builder who created an observatory in his back garden has said capturing and livestreaming the solar eclipse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736989","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\/736989","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=736989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}