article_snippet: The partial solar eclipse is due to take place at 8.45am on Friday, March 20, and will be visible for thousands of kilometres .
article_snippet: The last solar eclipse of a similar size took place on 11 August 1999 and had an eclipse magnitude of 1.029.
article_snippet: The maximum of two minutes and 23 seconds of totality for the 1999 eclipse occurred close to Ramnicu Valcea in Romania.
article_snippet: It was said to have been the first total eclipse visible in Europe since 22 July 1990, and the first visible in the UK since 29 June 1927.
article_snippet: an eclipse is due to take place at 8.45am on Friday, March 20, and will be visible for thousands of kilometres.
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: Timeings will vary, so that in London, the partial eclipse - when the moon starts touching the sun's edge - will begin at 8.24am.
article_snippet: The eclipse will peak at 9.31am and this will be the point when the moon is closest to the centre of the sun.
article_snippet: By 10.41am, the moon will leave the sun's edge and the partial eclipse will end.