Agencies | Svalbard, Norway, was the best place to observe the total eclipse
Associated Press | Friday March 20, 2015 | 21:25 hrs
Norway – A solar eclipse darkened the skies of northern Europe yesterday and millions of viewers using masks from welder to a dental radiography tried to observe the cosmic phenomenon
While the best place to see the rare total solar eclipse. Sun was the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, possibly the worst place was cloudy and humid London. But that did not stop the students will use special glasses to watch the sky through dense clouds over the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park.
The Regent’s Park in London could even be a dog with special glasses he put his master.
The spectators were creative to see the eclipse. In Ukraine, a woman used a welder mask; in Kosovo a man used a dental radiography to better see the wonder. Others used improvised projectors while a person in Bosnia wore a dark glass plate
Even the Dutch royal family began to tone. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maximum eclipse viewed from the fish market in Hamburg, Germany. The queen, dressed head to toe in red, smiled as her husband pointed skyward.
Enjoy the Arctic
The Arctic yesterday enjoyed a perfect view of a solar eclipse in where the moon completely covered the sun in a clear sky, casting a shadow on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
The spectators shouted, cheered and clapped when Longyearbyen, the largest population of Svalbard, is plunged into darkness. The sky was clear, showing a full view of the crown, a faint ring of light around the moon and is only visible during a total solar eclipse.
Before the clouds had covered the islands Faroe and prevented thousands of people there to experience the full effect of a total eclipse.
The Faroe Svalbard and were the only two places on Earth where the eclipse was total.
Despite clouds in the Faroe, tourists and locals in Torshavn also held when the light is mitigated for two minutes and 45 seconds.
“It was a pretty big disappointment not to see the sun,” said Janaki Lund Jensen, who had sailed from Copenhagen with 884 other people to see the eclipse. The hotel rooms had been booked years and thousands of people came to the archipelago to try to see the phenomenon.
Sigrun Skalagard in the northern area of the islands, said the birds were silent and the dogs began to howl during the eclipse.
“Some people are surprised at how quickly it got dark,” he said.
In Europe and parts of Asia and Africa could be a partial eclipse. In Shetland, Orkney and Hebrides, the moon covered 95% of the sun, according to the Met Office, and 1% farther south in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In Copenhagen, the sun was covered by 85% while 80% was hidden in southern Sweden. However, clouds affected visibility in much of the continent.
The last total eclipse occurred in November 2012 over Australia. The next will be in March 2016 in Indonesia, according to NASA.
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