{"id":58556,"date":"2026-08-12T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-the-west-watched-most-historic-solar-eclipse-since-1999\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:47:11","slug":"how-the-west-watched-most-historic-solar-eclipse-since-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-the-west-watched-most-historic-solar-eclipse-since-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"How the West watched most historic solar eclipse since 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Thousands of people from across the West of England stood or sat completely still on Wednesday evening to watch a historic partial eclipse.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 90% of the sun was obscured by the moon &#8211; the most it has been blocked above UK skies since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0rdx87rgdgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">total eclipse in 1999.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In areas like Weston-super-Mare, Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham and Warminster people gathered to watch the phenomenon with special glasses, alongside DIY viewers who looked through cereal boxes and colanders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From vantage points to pub gardens and homes, here&#8217;s how you all reacted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cre4p97rn37o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people from across the West of England stood or sat completely still on Wednesday evening to watch a historic partial eclipse. More than 90% of the sun was obscured by the moon &#8211; the most it has been blocked above UK skies since the total eclipse in 1999. In areas like Weston-super-Mare, Bath, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5350,1107,549,6869,3050],"class_list":["post-58556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-eclipse","tag-historic","tag-solar","tag-watched","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58558,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556\/revisions\/58558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}