Solar eclipse: How to make your own glasses at home as stock sells out
Here’s how you can view the eclipse without glasses By Tuesday afternoon, the queues told the story. Hundreds of shoppers waited for up to three hours outside high-street retailers to grab the last remaining solar eclipse glasses, while online stockists sold out completely, with some orders unable to arrive until the end of the week. […]
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UK weather report: Which parts of the country will have clear skies for ‘best solar eclipse’ in years?
It’s being dubbed as once in a generation By Tuesday afternoon, the queues told the story. Hundreds of shoppers waited for up to three hours outside high-street retailers to grab the last remaining solar eclipse glasses, while online stockists sold out completely, with some orders unable to arrive until the end of the week. On […]
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Solar eclipse 2026: When and how to watch the UK’s biggest since 1999
Eclipse fever takes over By Tuesday afternoon, the queues told the story. Hundreds of shoppers waited for up to three hours outside high-street retailers to grab the last remaining solar eclipse glasses, while online stockists sold out completely, with some orders unable to arrive until the end of the week. On Wednesday evening, the biggest […]
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Octopus Energy issues warning for millions of households over energy use today
Octopus energy urges customers to avoid using dishwashers and washing machines during the solar eclipse As we creep closer to the UK’s biggest celestial show of the decade, Britain’s largest energy supplier is calling on millions of households to not use electrical appliances today. Taking place between 19:00 and 19:30 tomorrow, the eclipse will bring […]
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Solar Eclipse 2026: The sky-chasers racing across Europe for Wednesday’s rare event
The eclipse is set for Wednesday. Armed with two high-spec cameras, a specialist telescope and a drone, Mark Griffiths has spent two days driving from Cheshire to Galicia in north-west Spain – one of the best places to witness Wednesday’s solar eclipse, as he told BBC News as part of an interview. For him, chasing […]
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Perseid Meteor Shower 2026: How and when to watch the show over the UK
Where to watch the fun Set an alarm, find a dark patch of sky and look up. Next Wednesday night the UK is in for a rare celestial double bill: a dramatic partial solar eclipse by day, followed just hours later by the peak of the Perseid meteor shower — arguably the most reliable stargazing […]
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