Overview
- The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12 will cross eastern Greenland, western Iceland and parts of northern Spain while much of Europe and parts of North America will see a partial eclipse.
- The UK will get a very deep partial eclipse with peak obscuration generally above 90 percent and local maxima in the southwest such as Plymouth at about 7:16 p.m. BST and roughly 94–96 percent coverage.
- NASA and the European Space Agency will provide live streams from inside the path of totality and teams will fly aircraft and launch high‑altitude balloons to study the Sun's corona during totality.
- Authorities and observatories stress that regular sunglasses are unsafe, advise ISO 12312‑2 certified eclipse glasses or projection methods, and warn of fake or scarce filters as public demand rises.
- On Aug. 8 the Met Office corrected and apologised for a mislocated lake on its UK eclipse map, and officials say remaining risks for in‑person viewers include low western horizons, local weather and last‑minute supply or crowding problems.