Cheers erupted through a housing estate as the solar eclipse began during a watch party put on by a teenage astronomer
Aston, 14, set up telescopes, helped with homemade viewers and gave away 400 pairs of eclipse glasses to neighbours on his estate in Overston, Northamptonshire, as part of his efforts to raise more than £400 for UK Astronomy.
Lyndsay Smith, Aston’s mum, said she’d never seen the estate so busy, with neighbours treating her son like a “local celebrity” and asking for autographs.
Aston, who dreams of working for SpaceX, even led children in experiments to measure lux levels and temperature during the partial eclipse.
