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Solar eclipse
A total solar eclipse.1 of 17 
A solar eclipse viewed from RAF Hercules.2 of 17 
Brian Cox will be at Jodrell Bank, Manchester, for this year's eclipse.3 of 17 ![]()
Smoked glass visors in use during the 1927 total solar eclipse.4 of 17 ![]()
How the Daily Mirror covered the 1999 eclipse.5 of 17 ![]()
A dog pictured with sunglasses to protect him from the solar eclipse of 1999.6 of 17 ![]()
Builders with their special glasses down tools in Liverpool to watch the solar eclipse in 1999.7 of 17 ![]()
A young girl views the solar eclipse in Chester city centre in 1999.8 of 17 ![]()
Late astronomer sir Patrick Moore demonstrating how to watch the eclipse in July 1999 - by projecting the sun's image onto a piece of white paper.9 of 17 ![]()
Cornish farmer Iain Mackie protected his sheep's eyes with special eclipse glasses during 1999's event.10 of 17 ![]()
Krystal Edge, 12, watches the 1999 Eclipse in the West Midlands with her Yorkshire Terrier, Jessica.11 of 17 ![]()
Eclipse viewers in Birmingham in 1999.12 of 17 ![]()
A young eclipse gazer watches the spectacle through a piece of smoked glass in Birmingham in 1999.13 of 17 ![]()
Office workers in Liverpool setting up pin hole viewers to look at the total solar eclipse in 1999.14 of 17 ![]()
Office workers watch the 1999 solar eclipse in Liverpool through large negatives,15 of 17 ![]()
A man watches the solar eclipse through a home made viewer on Everton Brow in 1999.16 of 17 ![]()
A young boy watches the solar eclipse in Merseyside in 1999 via a small mirror reflected onto the base of a picnic cool box17 of 17
