article_snippet: The proportion of sun covered by the moon during the near-total solar eclipse will be higher in the north of the UK, so while there be an 84 per cent eclipse in London, Manchester will see an 89 per cent eclipse and 94 per cent in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
article_snippet: The most ‘complete’ eclipse in the UK will be see from Lerwick in the Shetland Isles.
article_snippet: The solar eclipse is set to block out nearly 90 per cent of sunlight across parts of Europe.
article_snippet: The solar eclipse will see up to 84 per cent of the sun covered in London and around 94 per cent in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
article_snippet: A partial eclipse will be visible across Europe, North Africa and Russia for about 90 minutes.
article_snippet: For spectators in Edinburgh, for example, The solar eclipse will begin, peak and end four minutes later.
article_snippet: Skies will darken for any location where the maximum obscuration exceeds 95 per cent, which includes north-western Scotland, the Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetland Islands, meaning that drivers in these places will have to switch on drivers in these places headlights.
article_snippet: However, Robin Scagell, vice president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) told MailOnline: 'Practically speaking there shouldn't be a problem - even from the north of Scotland there will still be plenty of light and if you didn't know there was an eclipse in progress you might not even notice. '
article_snippet: It will still be broad daylight and no darker than if there were some cloud in front of The sun.
article_snippet: The solar eclipse  will see up to 84 per cent of the sun covered over London and around 94 per cent in the main cities in Scotland (pictured is a full eclipse over Australia in 2012) 
article_snippet: Tom Kerss, astronomer at The Royal Observatory Greenwich said: 'Since the Moon is smaller than the Earth, and very far away, the properly dark shadow it casts will only be about 100 miles wide, and will spend most of it time darkening the chilly waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. '
article_snippet: However, if the weather is clear, observers on Svalbard and the Faroes should experience almost three minutes of extraordinary day-time darkness. '
article_snippet: Since the shadow of the Moon will be ever so slightly larger in this scenario, it might appear slightly darker during totality, but in practise I think this would be difficult to detect, even by an experienced eclipse chaser. '
article_snippet: It’ll be well worth taking a look outside to see the two most important astronomical bodies in our lives rising together, and witness the last eclipse to cover so much of the sun from Europe in over a decade.'