How UK kids watched the eclipse

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Image caption, Tora says: Too cloudy to see the eclipse so we built one with stones instead!

Many parts of the UK have experienced a very rare partial solar eclipse, one of the most spectacular in years.

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Your eclipse moments...

Image caption, Sasha took this artistic snap of the eclipse on Beacon Hill in Loughborough
Image caption, Tabitha in Yatton watched the eclipse safely using her projection.

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Image caption, Here's P6P at St Ninians Primary School in Stirling, Scotland, who projected their class name in eclipses!

"We looked through pinhole viewers and colanders. We also made a viewer out of a poster tube. We saw the sun turn into a tiny crescent and we got really chilly! It was amazing!"

Kestrels Class, Welford Sibbertoft and Sulby primary school, Northamptonshire

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Image caption, Ross age 7 and Kyla age 6 made special viewing boxes to watch the eclipse.

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Image caption, Zac in Cornwall made a viewer with two bits of paper so he could see the eclipse before going to school.

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Image caption, Over 700 pupils and their teachers at a school in Wrexham watched the eclipse today, through special glasses, pinhole cameras and welding masks!

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Image caption, Joseph, aged 9, made a special pinhole viewer to take to school in Cambridgeshire.

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Image caption, Oliver, age 10, from Daresborough told Newsround: "This is our home eclipse viewing experiment."

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Image caption, Ayshah and these kids on the Isle of Lewis had their specs at the ready
Image caption, Jessica in Basildon didn't have any eclipse joy. She said: "I was ready to watch the eclipse but didn't get to see it due to weather."