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BBC presenter Liz Bonnin watched the total eclipse over the Faroe Islands. She said: "I never really thought it was going to be this moving."
Total eclipse
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What an amazing image - here's the total eclipse in the Faroe Islands.
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Steve Hann, Faversham, Kent emails: I can't understand the panic over the supposed energy crisis the eclipse is going to cause. Isn't the country plunged into darkness every night? I'm sure if we can survive an 11 hour blackout at night, 2 minutes should be a doddle. Wont be any worse than everyone putting their kettles on after Eastenders I would suspect!
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It's cloudy in many parts of the UK and Europe, as you can see here with this picture taken at an observatory in Kiel, northern Germany.
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Rob Johnson sent us this picture form Aberystwyth in Wales
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Matthias B in Iceland sent us this picture of his view of the eclipse
Breaking News
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See the total eclipse in Faroe Islands by clicking on the "Live Coverage" tab above. Totality will last two minutes and 47 seconds.
Our ability to see eclipses like this is down to pure luck. The Sun is around 400 times bigger than the Moon - but it also happens to be about 400 times further away. This makes them appear roughly the same size when viewed from Earth, so the Moon is able to block out all of the Sun's disc, leaving the Sun's radiant corona shining behind it like a crown.
The eclipse around the world
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This image shows where in the world the eclipse is visible. Large areas of Europe as well as Asia and Africa can see the phenomenon.
Svalbard has experienced first contact
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Svalbard, the archipelago north of Norway, saw "first contact" at 09:11 GMT and awaits totality at 10:10 GMT
Breaking News
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The Isle of Lewis, off the north coast of Scotland, sees a maximum eclipse. 98% of the Sun is covered by the Moon, creating a sky that resembles twilight.
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The eclipse is one of the hot topics on Twitter. The hashtag #Eclipse2015 is trending worldwide, as is Bonnie Tyler - the Welsh singer who sang 1983 power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart.
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There's a maximum eclipse at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire. 89% of the Sun is covered by the Moon.
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BBC reporter John Maguire says the temperature in Newlyn, Cornwall, has dropped by three degrees or so. He said: "It's quite spooky. It's an eerie feeling."
Supermoon
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The Moon doesn't orbit the Earth in a perfect circle, so its distance from us varies. "Supermoons" occur when the Moon makes its closest pass in its orbit around Earth. Moon appears bigger than normal as a result. Last night, our Moon entered this phase, which is why it's close enough to Earth to completely block some light.
If the Moon was further away as it passed in front of the Sun, it would appear smaller and only block out the middle part of the Sun. Anyone standing beneath it would look up and see a 'ring of fire' around the Moon - an "annular" eclipse.
[Photo by John McConnell, BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live Flickr]
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Here's how things are looking in Berlin this morning.
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The eclipse has reached its maximum over Cornwall. People in the south of the UK see 83% of the Sun's disc covered by the Moon.
The Moon is speeding across the Sun at around 1,400mph (2,253km/h) - that's faster than a Concorde jet.
Watch by clicking the "live coverage" tab above.
Faroes reach 49% eclipse
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As the eclipse races north-west, the Faroe Islands experience 49% eclipse; but at 09:41 GMT they will reach the magical 100% totality.
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Sign of peace?
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A dove is pictured in front of the eclipse in Munich, Germany. Central Europe is expected to get a 75% eclipse this morning.
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Dr Anne Lawrence from the University of Reading has been looking at what our ancestors thought of solar eclipses. Apparently some thought a celestial dragon caused them by swallowing the sun or the moon.
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Andy Burns from the Wiltshire Astronomical Society is watching events at the Avebury World Heritage site at Silbury Hill. He's seen eight eclipses in the past and describes them as "emotional experiences".
He said: "It doesn't matter that I've been around for a good number of years but you still remember those eclipses and they really are tearjerkers.
"The emotions that they can extract - all around you can see whole crowds of people with odd tears down their face - fantastic."
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