ASTRONOMY Ireland sold thousands of special glasses for last night’s solar spectacular over Donegal.
Sky watchers were told that the eclipse would be the best in the county for 27 years since 1999 and there wouldn’t be another like it for another 64 years until 2090.
Astronomy Ireland’s eclipse glasses allowed people to enjoy the generational experience.
Our photographer Brian McDaid’s photo of the scene among the clouds above Letterkenny on Wednesday evening.
Photographer Treasa Frazer, from Lifford, founded Donegal Dark Sky and hoped to get incredible images from the rare celestial event.
Experts stated beforehand that it would be the deepest partial solar eclipse in almost three decades.
Yesterday evening, from around 6.17pm to 7.12pm, the moon passed directly between the Earth and the Sun, obscuring around 90 per cent of the sun, according to some calculations.
A view of the Eclipse from Lismonaghan Letterkenny
Locals who observed the eclipse said it was all over by 8pm.
Tréasa expected Donegal to see around 93 to 95 per cent coverage of the sun and warned “there is never a safe time to look directly at the sun”.
Experts claimed there will not be another deep solar eclipse of the same scale over Ireland until September 23, 2090, when a total solar eclipse is calculated to be visible.