Schwerin/Offenbach (dpa/mv) - Only a few were able to catch a glimpse of the partial solar eclipse in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Tuesday. "In principle, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania would have been a good place to observe the partial solar eclipse, since the moon there covered a larger part of the sun than the rest of the country," said the German Weather Service in Offenbach on Tuesday. Up to around 30 percent of the sun's disc visible from Earth is said to have been covered by the moon in front of it.
But in many places the clouds made this impossible, according to the DWD. Although the cloud cover was not completely closed, you needed a lucky hand when choosing the place. According to the information, the best chances of a cloud-free sky were in southern Germany, but here the moon covered just one-fifth of the sun.
