Watch: Timelapse footage shows incredible solar eclipse in Yorkshire

This incredible timelapse footage shows the movement of the moon across the sun during the solar eclipse as seen from North Yorkshire.

Captured by Jack Aplin and his father took their telescope out to Wath, near Ripon, where they managed to capture the incredible footage.

More than 90 per cent of the Sun was obscured by the Moon, the most it has been blocked above UK skies since the total eclipse in 1999.

People travelled to various spots across Yorkshire to get a better view, including the Cow and Calf Rocks in Ilkley, but there will surely be few people to get a better look at the phenomenon as Jack and his father.

The skies were so clear, the pair also managed to capture an incredible picture of the IC5068 Nebula, also known as the ‘Forsaken Nebula’.

Hours after the eclipse had passed, British stargazers were treated to an extra delight as the Perseid meteor shower lit up the night sky across the UK.

The phenomenon peaked in the early hours of Thursday morning, with those in rural areas having a better chance of getting a clear glimpse of the shower.

The shower is produced as Earth ploughs through a stream of dust left behind by Comet Swift–Tuttle.

Each tiny grain strikes Earth’s atmosphere at about 60 kilometres per second, burning up in a brief flash that takes the appearance of a shooting star.