On Friday 20 March, there will be a solar eclipse. The path of totality runs the north Atlantic, between Iceland and Great Britain, so only the Faroes and Svalbard (Spitsbergen) get to see a total eclipse. It will be partial across the whole of Europe: 50-60% across the Mediterranean, and 85-95% in the UK. The Moon's shadow moves eastwards, so the maximum eclipse is around 09:00 GMT in Portugal and western Spain, about 09:30 GMT in the UK and Italy, and around 10:00 GMT in Sweden, Poland and Romania.
As ever with a solar eclipse, DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY, OR THROUGH A TELESCOPE (unless you want to lose your sight). If you want to observe the eclipse, you can use welders' goggles or equivalent, or project the image of the sun through a pinhole.
There's a lot more information on the
NASA Eclipse website. For this particular eclipse, start at the
2011-2020 solar eclipse list, scroll down to the list, and follow the links against "2015 March 20". The most useful link is probably one including a
Google map - you can click anywhere on the map, and get the times and other details for that location.
