PEOPLE across the Hanham and Kingswood area found different ways to watch the biggest solar eclipse over England since 1999.
Across parks and open spaces, in gardens and out of upstairs windows, people took advantage of the clear skies on the evening of August 12 to experience an astronomical phenomenon.
With the Moon covering 93% of the Sun in Bristol, anyone wanting to see the eclipse needed either a pair of special eclipse glasses – which block out all ultraviolet and infrared light, and more than 99% of visible light – or find a way to watch it indirectly.
Some made pinhole cameras, used special filters on cameras, or tried using colanders to project an image of the sun onto a wall, the ground or a piece of card – with mixed results.
Olivia and Zac Bence, from Kingswood, and their family headed to Rodway Common in Mangotsfield to get a clear view.
Nan Sharon Glastonbury said they went to the common after finding the green space at Cossham Hospital on Lodge Hill was already full of people.
To see a total eclipse people needed to visit Spain or Iceland.
The next solar eclipse visible from Bristol will be on August 2 next year – but the Moon will only cover around half of the Sun here, with the line of totality crossing the far south of Spain, North Africa and parts of Saudi Arabia.