Tomorrow, Friday, March 20, Chester and Ellesmere Port will become eerily dark as we travel to school and work during the first solar eclipse in the UK for more than 15 years.
We have put together some ideas of where to get the best view of the eclipse (wearing the correct eye protection of course) or the changing light over the city and surrounding areas:
Chester City Walls
View Chester Racecourse change from light to dark from the walls on Nuns Road
The Queen's Park suspension bridge
Watch the River Dee change colour as the sun disappears
Frodsham
You will get a good view of Frodsham being plunged into darkness from Overton Hill
Cheshire Plains
For a fabulous view of the light disappearing over the Cheshire Plains, the energetic might want to climb to Beeston Castle
Helsby
You could do worse than climb up Helsby Hill but please don't look directly at the sun
Burwardsley
If you want to make sure you can get a coffee after your eclipse experience, The Pheasant Inn at Burwardsley is open from 11am
Chester Town Hall Square
The Chester Astronomical Society will be hosting an event in Town Hall Square from 8.30am on Friday. Three hundred years ago, Henry Prescott, the then deputy registrar of Chester Diocese , observed a similar eclipse from this location, an event recorded in his diary which is held by the Chester Records Office. The society will have safe observing equipment available for members of the public to view the eclipse.
Let's hope that the weather forecast is wrong, however, otherwise we won't see a thing!