A partial solar eclipse will take place over the UK this morning.
, would get the best view of today’s eclipse, where the Moon will obscure a maximum of 85% of the Sun, Dr Massey added.Lerwick in the Shetland Isles is expected to have a better view, with 28% of the Sun obscured at mid-eclipse.
Dr Massey said looking directly at the Sun can cause serious damage to the eyes, even when a large fraction of the solar disc is blocked out. He said: ‘You need a small, flat mirror and a means of placing it in the sun so that it reflects the sunlight into a room where you can view it on a wall or some sort of a flat screen.
Dr Massey said: ‘Mount them on a tripod, and fit one piece of card with a hole in it over the eyepiece, and place another between 50 cm and a metre behind it.