[summer '85]

Here's something different from my video collection,the BBC coverage of the total solar eclipse of 11th August 1999. Sadly this is something that we will not witness again from British mainland soil until September 2090

[Les]

I was based just outside Mawnan Smith near Falmouth,smack in the middle of the totality track.Although it was gloriously sunny the day before and the day after it was clouded out from where I was in fact it was raining during totality.The only part I saw of the whole eclipse sequence was a very shallow eclipse a few minutes before the end.A big disapointed,especially when Id been eagerly awaiting this eclipse for nearly 30 years.Im still glad I was under the Moons shadow for that 2 minutes,and I think Im still entitled to the teashirt.

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[Col Cooper]

I was on a hilltop near Totnes, Devon.

it was cloudy on and off in the build-up but got some nice views. Sadly we too were totally clouded out during totality
it was till an amazing experience though. i found it particularly weird just how quickly the light vanished as totality hit.

[Uskys]

Nearly 13 years ago ! doesn't time fly. I watched from somerset... I videoed it ... I recorded the bbc broadcast of it... and all for what? It was a load of rubbish ..... the moon just passed in front the sun, so what.

Cheers Grumpy uskys

[Lightning Hunter]

I remember it well. I went to a town near Le Havre in France to view totality. It was partly cloudy, but it cleared up just in time for totality and I saw the corona.

The main highlight was seeing the shadow race across the sea towards us from the Channel - you could see the dark patch in the distance and then it suddenly hit and light dropped almost instantly! 360 degree sunset/dusk sky was surreal, as were the birds going to roost etc and the temperature drop. Certainly an event I'll never forget.

[Dave W]

Should have been in Szeged, south eastern Hungary T'was awesome!

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[00ctober]

Conditions were absolutely perfect here for seeing it with the naked eye, that low cloud/fog which drifts across the sun and turns it into a faint disc. Had that virtually throughout the event, just a partial eclipse here of course.

[Rickoza]

I remember watching this from the roof of our old college. Absolutely fascinating, especially the way it suddenly got noticeably cold during it.

[summer '85]

Here's a BBC news report on how the rest of the UK viewed this eclipse