Solar eclipse 2015 - in pictures
Friday’s eclipse is the best in the UK since 1999, with first contact being recorded in Madrid and Newquay
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A boy looks at the sun through protective glasses in Berlin, Germany
Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP
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A composite picture shows the solar eclipse in Newquay, England
Photograph: Sky News
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People who have travelled to the remote Faroe Islands for the eclipse, wait to see the almost three-minute-long event
Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
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Italian tourists prepare their cameras in Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
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The eclipse begins over the Eden Project near St Austell, England
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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People stand on the roof of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences in Germany
Photograph: Carsten Rehder/AFP/Getty Images
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The view from Bridgwater, south-west England
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
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Students Greg Robertson, 19, and Sam Firminger, 20, share a bottle of bubbly as they wait at Clifton Observatory in Bristol, England
Photograph: Claire Hayhurst/PA
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The eclipse in Backwell, Somerset
Photograph: REX
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Young women watch in Zurich, Switzerland
Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA
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St Peter’s Square in Vatican City
Photograph: Angelo Carconi/EPA
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A pupil looks through special glasses at St Vincent’s school in Altrincham, Greater Manchester
Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
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The total solar eclipse seen from Svalbard, Norway
Photograph: Haakon Mosvold Larsen/AP
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Astronomers in Scarborough
Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images
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A woman watches the eclipse in clear weather, Budapest
Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
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Skiers on Zugspitze mountain use a survival blanket to look into the sky in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Photograph: Philipp Guelland/Getty Images
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People wear protective glasses in Toulouse, France
Photograph: Remy Gabalda/AFP/Getty Images
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Pupils from St Ursula’s school watch from Greenwich Observatory
Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian/The Guardian
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