Build an indirect solar eclipse viewer following the directions at the link.
This is a solar eclipse, specifically a total eclipse (Total solar eclipse I think is how you would word it).
-- During a partial solar eclipse, part of the sun is obscured from our view (by the moon) and the rest of it is still there. -- During a total solar eclipse, the entire disk of the sun is obscured from our view (by the moon).
The next solar eclipse in the UK area is on March 20, 2015. It will be a total solar eclipse, lasting around 2.5 minutes. However, you will only be able to view the eclipse from Faroes.However, the next solar eclipse in the actual UK is on September 23, 2090. Also a total solar eclipse, you can view best from the south-west of Cornwall.
Solar Eclipse
The moon and the solar system. When the moons blocks the sun from an Earth view, it is a solar eclipse. When the sun blocks the moon from an Earth view, it is a lunar eclipse.
A solar eclipse may be partial, total, or annular.
Actually solar eclipses are slightly more common, but a solar eclipse, and especially the total phase, can only be seen in a relatively narrow strip of Earth.
There will be four partial solar eclipses in 2011, and NO total solar eclipses. You can view the catalog of all eclipses from 2000 BCE to 3000 AD on the NASA Eclipse Web Page.
More people can see a total lunar eclipse than a total solar eclipse because to see the complete solar eclipse you must be in a locations directly underneath it so your point of view and angle of the moon is correct. It doesn't matter as much as to where you are for a lunar eclipse...
solar eclipse maybe?
A total solar eclipse only occurs when there is a new moon.
Yes, it gets dark during a total solar eclipse.