New Zealand's hotels have sold out two years before the country's first total solar eclipse since 1965. The event will take place on 22 July 2028, with Dunedin at the centre of the line of totality.
The total solar eclipse will be visible in southern New Zealand, with Dunedin at the centre of the shadow. At 4.17pm, the city will be plunged into darkness as the sun completely blocks the moon for 2 minutes and 51 seconds.
The path of the eclipse starts in the Indian Ocean and crosses through central Australia, just north of Alice Springs, then goes through Sydney, and then it goes through just north of Milford Sound and Queenstown, and on through Central Otago to Dunedin.
The last time that a total solar eclipse occurred in this part of New Zealand was in 1163. According to the Dunedin Astronomical Society, 50,000 people are expected to flood into the city to see the spectacular total solar eclipse.
This summer, the best solar eclipse visible from the UK in almost 27 years is set to occur in our skies. On Wednesday, 12 August, the moon will move to cover the sun in a total solar eclipse for people in Greenland, Iceland and Northern Spain. However, viewers in the UK and Ireland won't miss out entirely. Here, around 90 per cent of the sun will be covered by the moon in a partial solar eclipse – the most coverage since the last total solar eclipse in 1999.