MALVERN residents witnessed the first eclipse in more than 15 years last Friday (March 20).
The spectacle began about 8.25am before plunging the area into an eerie twilight about 9.30am, fully ending at 10.40am.
A solar eclipse can only happen at new moon, when the moon directly blocks sight of the sun from certain places in the world. It can take place up to five times a year.
Observer readers have been sending in their pictures of the moment the moon covered the sun.
Jan Long, who was one of them, said where she was, the long-awaited eclipse was marred by thick cloud and at just after 9.30am, but it was still an amazing sight.
“It was a strange moment as the birds seemed confused going to roost and the pigs in the fields decided to return to their little tin houses as if night had fallen.
“After the initial disappointment we were treated to tantalising views as the Corona appeared but quickly swamped by the clouds until the solar eclipse was almost over.
“The sun reappeared and shone brilliantly bringing back the birdsong and the pigs trotted out from their shelters looking slightly baffled.”
Tarquin Shaw-Young from Malvern also sent in a picture of a pigeon looking on at the eclipse.
