10/08/2026
🚨 This is your 48 hour warning! 🚨
On Wednesday, 12th August 2026, the UK and Ireland will experience a near-total solar eclipse! 🌒 the sky will darken as the Moon aligns between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow and creating a awe-inspiring experience! Although there will be other partial solar eclipses in future, one of this magnitude will not appear over the UK or Ireland again until 2081!
The fun doesn’t end there… one of the biggest meteor showers of the year peaks after sunset 💫 the Perseids is already in full swing, but on this particular night up to 100 meteors per hour may be seen streaking across the night sky! ✨
Many of you will remember the last major eclipse over the UK, on 11 August 1999, with the path of totality that crossed over Cornwall and parts of Southern England… the path of totality this time won’t come as close - its closest point off the west coast of Ireland - but the scenes to come will still be as spectacular, and memorable, and for most of us it will be the last great solar eclipse we’ll ever get to witness 🥺
