The eclipse will unfortunately not visible from any area of the UK.
Monday’s total eclipse of the Sun instead starts in the Pacific Ocean, where it will make landfall in Chile at 11.38am (2.28 GMT).
The moment the Moon completely blocks the sun – known as totality – will commence in Saavedra at 1pm local time (4pm GMT), lasting 2 minutes, 4 seconds.
Eclipse enthusiasts living closer to the centre of the path of totality can expect to experience to 2 minutes, 10 seconds of totality. Advertisement
How to safely watch the eclipse of the Sun:
The only time that you can safely view a solar eclipse without special equipment is during a total solar eclipse.
| UPDATED: 14:48, Sat, Dec 12, 2020
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A solar eclipse event occurring on Monday, December 14, 2020 will take place over South America’s Southern Cone. An eclipse occurs when the Moon sweeps across the daytime sky to fully obscure the solar disk, from our planet s perspective. This briefly blocks all Sunlight, except from its outermost layer, known as the corona.