In Lisbon, more than one hundred sky-gazers packed the lawns in front of the Astronomical Observatory to watch the eclipse, which commenced last Friday at 8am and finished at 10am.
The observatory freed up three telescopes for the purpose.
Children and adults wearing their special eclipse glasses watched as the moon slowly covered the sun in a magical two-hour event that was visible across swathes of the Northern Hemisphere, albeit only partially in Portugal.
Thankfully the skies were clear enough in many parts of Portugal to get a good view, though in some locations, such as Faro, in the Algarve, the weather botched the highly-anticipated occasion.
“We were very lucky, at the start of the morning it was cloudy, but it opened up;” said João Retré, coordinator of the Lisbon Institute for Astrophysics and Space Sciences’ department of Science and Communication.
While the eclipse was a partial one in Portugal it was total across the north Atlantic extreme, Denmark’s Faroe Islands, Svalbard (Norway), and the Arctic region.
The next eclipse visible to Portugal will take place in 11 years time.