article_snippet: While animals may not react as strongly as during a total eclipse, zoos are still preparing for the partial eclipse that will see skies darken slightly across the UK at around 9.30am tomorrow morning.
article_snippet: The path of totality for Friday's eclipse will travel from just beneath the Greenland peninsula to the Arctic Circle.
article_snippet: The left-hand animation shows the totality of the 1999 eclipse.
article_snippet: The left-hand animation shows how the shadow created by the eclipse on 20 March will travel over Europe .
article_snippet: Tomorrow, the moon's orbit will see the moon's orbit travel in front of the sun, casting a shadow over Earth.
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, meaning that animals in Scotland may react more strongly than those in the south of England.
article_snippet: The most ‘complete’ eclipse in the UK will be seen from Lerwick in the Shetland Isles.
article_snippet: Timings 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.
article_snippet: For spectators in Edinburgh, for example, The eclipse will begin, peak and end four minutes later.
article_snippet: Robin Scagell, vice president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) told MailOnline: 'It will still be broad daylight and no darker than if there were some cloud in front of the sun,’ but anecdotes from past partial eclipses hint that animals will still notice the change.
article_snippet: The 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: The solar eclipse is set to block out nearly 90 per cent of sunlight across parts of Europe.
article_snippet: On the morning of the 20 March the moon's orbit will see the moon's orbit travel in front of the sun casting a shadow over Earth - and The solar eclipse will be the biggest event of the moon's orbit kind since 11 August 1999 (pictured over Germany)
highlights_snippet: Eclipse will see skies darken across the UK at around 9.30am tomorrow .
  