Solar Eclipse (Partial)

There is a partial eclipse on March 29. Join us to see it together on Tooting Common (near Dr. Johnson Avenue car park and bus stop). It starts 10.07am, maximum coverage at 11.03am, and the moon leaves the sun at midday - 12 noon. It won't get noticably darker but, if weather allows, we will be able to see the moon as it crosses the sun, and use suitably filtered equipment to see it close-up. I'll bring my telescope with a Baader solar filter and I'll have solar sunglasses for us all (though if you have other safe equipment you're welcome to bring it, especially if you have a specialised highly-filtered solar-scope showing prominences and the hydrogen-alpha wavelengths view).

Safety Notice
DO NOT STARE AT THE SUN OR USE ANY OPTICAL EQUIPMENT WITHOUT PROPER GUIDANCE AND SAFETY.
Families welcome, but please keep watch on children in your care for their safety - any equipment brought must be suitably protected and watched at all times so no safety filters are removed while pointed towards the sun or other risks.

We have some safely filtered for sun-gazing sunglasses provided at low cost courteously by Astronomers Across Borders via GoStargazing to distribute to anyone who doesn't have one already (if you wish to contribute to our monthly Meetup running costs, please get in touch on the day or by online message). I expect some passers by on the path may be interested too.

We can meet next to the car park, behind the wooden-build toilets block (may not be open) just off Tooting Bec Road, and next to the footpath (the footpath goes between the tennis courts and pond, and crosses Bedford Hill at a lights-controlled zebra crossing the other side).

Location: Google Maps link

Further timing details and visualisation of the eclipse at this Time and Date website page.
More about Tooting Common at this Wandsworth council page.

The next eclipses coming up in London/UK are a partial lunar eclipse in September and another partial (but quite deep) solar eclipse on 12 August 2026.