Members of the Echo's Camera Club were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of today's partial solar eclipse. 

The rare event saw the sun and moon move exactly in line with the Earth.

The partial solar eclipse, took place between 10.10am and 12.20pm today, though experts said the best time to see it would have been around 11.14am. 

Heavy cloud cover across much of Essex meant few were able to catch a glimpse of the event. 

Halstead Gazette: Photo by Laura BarkerPhoto by Laura Barker

But camera club members Laura Barker and Martin Curtis were able to snap shots of the partial eclipse. 

Halstead Gazette: Martin Curtis took this shot of the partial eclipseMartin Curtis took this shot of the partial eclipse

Parts of the US, Canada, Europe and Asia will see an annular eclipse – which occurs when the sun and moon are exactly in line with the Earth, but the apparent size of the moon is smaller than that of the sun.

Halstead Gazette: Photo by Laura BarkerPhoto by Laura Barker

This causes the sun to appear as a very bright ring, or annulus, in a phenomenon dubbed as the “ring of fire”.

However, experts said observers in the UK and Ireland were likely to see a crescent sun instead of a ring, known as a partial eclipse.

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