In the UK, first contact - the moment the moon's shadow first appears on the sun - occurred at 18:08 in Scotland, with the last glimpse ending just after 20.00.
Spectators in Europe had to wait a little longer for the moon's orbit to cover the sun, although large parts of northern and central Spain, a section of Portugal and areas in Greenland and Iceland experienced the rare total eclipse.
In the UK however, it will have reached its peak of 96 per cent after about an hour of its first glimpse, although the specific moment of peak coverage will depend on where a viewer is in the UK.
At the eclipse's peak, the country descended into relative darkness and the temperature dropped, with many viewers taking in the rare spectacle at popular lookout points....<<<Read More>>>....
