An eclipse is darkening parts of Europe on Friday, in a rare solar event that won't be repeated for more than a decade.

The best place to see the eclipse is in the Faroe Islands, 200 miles off the coast of Scotland, and in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, which will experience a total eclipse.

Starting in Greenland at sunrise, the eclipse will move in a semicircle northeast, passing over Iceland, and will reach the UK at around 8.45am local time. But most of the solar eclipse will go unseen as it crosses over the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.