A man cycled for about three and a half hours so he could watch Wednesday's partial eclipse through specialist viewing glasses.
Kian Lodge headed to a watch party at Brough Observatory, East Yorkshire, where he could get hold of the glasses after finding the cost of them "absolutely extortionate" online, with long delivery times.
People were encouraged to enjoy the rare event safely by using certified eclipse glasses or handheld solar viewers.
Lodge described the journey as "some of the happiest miles that I've travelled in my life", and added that it was a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity".
Up to 95% of the Sun slowly disappeared behind the Moon on Wednesday evening in what was the UK's most dramatic solar eclipse in nearly three decades.
But people were encouraged not to look directly at the eclipse as it could cause damage to their retinas, according to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
Most high street stores selling eclipse glasses sold out, leaving hundreds of shoppers queuing for them.
Lodge said he had travelled to Brough specially to get the glasses and watch the eclipse as it had the largest astronomy observatory in the area.
"It just has all the facilities that you could think of," he said.
"I didn't think it would be like this. I didn't think that as many people would have turned up."
He did not travel alone, taking his light-up toy moon he found in a charity shop.
"I put some fresh batteries in it and I popped it in my bag and it came with me all this way!" he said.
