{"id":1144835,"date":"2026-08-12T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1144835\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:45:22","slug":"solar-eclipse-2026-live-london-cast-into-darkness-as-moon-covers-90-of-sun-in-epic-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1144835\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse 2026 LIVE: London cast into darkness as Moon covers 90% of Sun in epic spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In pictures: Londoners watch the eclipse<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/01KZVHHH40WQ4H2HF1C637YDTM.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A young boy watches the solar eclipse at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/01KZVHP8N2WFWPDTGYBNDYPCVE.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People watching the solar eclipse at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2289697442...jpeg\" width=\"5587\" height=\"3724\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A spectator looks on during a near total solar eclipse in central London<\/p>\n<p>AFP\/Getty<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/01KZVHTQQDMS03BA60XV9NGWFG.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A spectator photographs the solar eclipse outside the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/01KZVHWP92922QV4THF75JXMQS.jpg\" width=\"2960\" height=\"1976\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-dkPvMp YXmIZ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman takes a photograph through a pair of eclipse glasses during the solar eclipse at King&#8217;s Stairs Gardens in Bermondsey, south London<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In pictures: Londoners watch the eclipse A young boy watches the solar eclipse at the Royal Observatory Greenwich,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1144836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[79137,23421,311327,70,45782,16,15],"class_list":["post-1144835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-glasses","tag-greenwich","tag-old-spitalfields-market","tag-science","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117084026043331268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}