Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
Introduction A total solar eclipse occurred on June 29, 1927.A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.The path of totality crossed far northern Europe and Asia, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Soviet Union (today's Russia) on June 29 (Wednesday), and finally passed Amukta in Alaska on June 28 (Tuesday).
Observation in England This was the first total eclipse visible from British mainland soil for 203 years. The Astronomer Royal set up a camp to observe the eclipse from the grounnds of Giggleswick School in North Yorkshire, which was on the line of totality. An observer at Southport, where an estimated quarter of a million people were on the shore to watch, described the eclipse for the ''Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada'', describing it as "those memorable 23 seconds ... a landmark forever in the lives of those privileged to see for the first time the Sun's Corona, whose secrets are only revealed to us for some few minutes in each century." This eclipse is referenced in the closing pages of Dorothy L. Sayers' novel Unnatural Death. Frances Brody's 2017 novel ''Death in the Stars'' is set at Giggleswick School while crowds were there to view the eclipse.Virginia Woolf recorded her impression of the eclipse, including the words "We had fallen. It was extinct. There was no colour. The earth was dead."
Related eclipses === Solar eclipses 1924–1928====== Saros 145===
See also * List of solar eclipses visible from Russia* List of solar eclipses visible from the United Kingdom
References
Sources *  Fotos of Solar Corona June 29, 1927*  Russia expedition for solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
External links * Recording the eclipse video of the Astronomer Royal's preparations, from Pathé News