Oriol Alamany / Total eclipse of the sun at totality. Palmer River, Queensland, Australia, November 14, 2012.

Oriol Alamany / Solar eclipse 63% on 4 January 2011, seen from Barcelona, Spain

Konrad Wothe / Solar eclipse, August 11, 1999 photographed from Munich, Germany

Adrian Davies / Annular solar eclipse, viewed from southern England, UK, Europe

Oriol Alamany / Solar eclipse 63% on 4 January 2011, seen from Barcelona, Spain

Oriol Alamany / Solar eclipse 63% on 4 January 2011, seen from Barcelona, Spain

Sue Flood / View of sun pre-eclipse, Novaya Zemlaya, Russia, 1st of August 2008

Sue Flood / First contact during total solar eclipse, with clouds drifting across solar disk, Noyaya Zemlaya, Russia, 1st of August 2008

Sue Flood / First contact during total solar eclipse, Novaya Zemlaya, 1st of August 2008

Sue Flood / Inner corona of sun and pink prominences during total solar eclipse, Novaya Zemlaya, Russia, 1st August 2008

Sue Flood / Early stages of total solar eclipse, Novaya Zemlaya, Russia, 1st August 2008

Sue Flood / Thin crescent as sun returns after totality during solar eclipse, Novaya Zemlaya, Russia, 1st August 2008

Nick Garbutt / Beginning of total solar eclipse. 21st June 2001 Morombe, Madagascar

Nick Garbutt / Diamond ring effect at total solar eclipse. 21st June 2001 Morombe, Madagascar

Konrad Wothe / Solar eclipse, August 11, 1999 photographed from Munich, Germany

Pete Oxford / Total solar eclipse 4th December 2002 Okavango delta, Botswana

Nick Garbutt / Total solar eclipse seen from Morombe, Madagascar 21st June 2001