London looks up for partial solar eclipse

Londoners stopped and looked up on Wednesday evening as the Moon slid across the face of the Sun, leaving a thin crescent hanging low over the western skyline.

The partial eclipse began at 18:17 BST and reached its maximum just after 19:00, when about 91% of the Sun was covered from the capital. It was over by 20:06.

According to the Royal Observatory Greenwich, it was the deepest eclipse visible from London since August 1999.

Crowds packed the hill at Greenwich, spread out across Brockwell Park and lined the river wall at King's Stairs Gardens in Bermondsey, watching through eclipse-viewing cardboard glasses.

Others improvised: one man in Regent's Park used a kitchen colander to throw dozens of tiny crescents onto a sheet of paper, while at Kew Green a group turned cereal boxes into pinhole viewers.

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