There were literally a few seconds at sunrise this morning when the clouds stayed off long enough for me to catch this partial eclipse of the sun by the moon from a hilltop in Leicester, UK, at around 8.30.

It clouded over completely within ten minutes – and is now snowing.  Fewer clouds would have been nice, but I consider myself lucky all the same.  The limb of the moon is clearly visible.  Following pics in chronological order.

SEE ALSO MY POST ON THE 20 May 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse HERE

Leicester University got a similar view: see here.

And some really nice pics from further afield in the Telegraph here.

Mark Edwards, near Rugby, had similar conditions to mine: here via BBC