Solar Eclipse 2015 - your reaction

For many in St Albans the experience was marred by the clouds - but we still got to experience the biggest eclipse since 1999, even it meant the county just went dark.

Pupils from Beechwood Park School in Markyate donned their glasses and looked to the skies to catch the event, which lasted for nearly two hours, starting just before 8.30am and peaking at 9.30am when the moon covered 90 per cent of the sun.

The school captured this image of the eclipse:

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth, hiding the sun from view and blocking out the sunlight that usually reaches us.

If you missed it, the next partial eclipse will take place in 2026 and the next total eclipse is due here in 2090.

Twitter reaction:

About 35 minutes after the maximum eclipse the cloud cover over Harpenden thinned enough to allow a bit of a view. pic.twitter.com/Dhx8UQGkis

— Roger Cave (@Roantrum) March 20, 2015

@ProfBrianCox @BBCOne @BBCStargazing #StargazingLive Amazing St. Albans UK pic.twitter.com/koyCwta3Uj

— Claire Henderson (@Claire2006) March 20, 2015

Peak eclipse in St Albans. Don't mean to be a killjoy but it looks like this most mornings. #eclipse2015 #letdown pic.twitter.com/hqhvFkfll9

— Kate Hart (Fisher) (@KateLFisher) March 20, 2015

The Solar eclipse in St Albans is more like 50 Shades of Grey #eclipse2015

— Owen Dale (@owend168) March 20, 2015

Wow! We saw it! #eclipse2015 @bbcweather @Review_Eagle @BBCStargazing @BBCNewsround @BWPScience pic.twitter.com/UnjjjmnSGa

— Beechwood Park Sch (@BWPSchool) March 20, 2015

Did you take any pictures? Email them over to charlotte.ikonen@london.newsquest.co.uk.