Scotland watches the partial solar eclipse

People across Scotland have captured Friday morning's partial solar eclipse.

Some parts of the country benefited from clear skies, while others got just seconds-only opportunities to glimpse the event through breaks in thick cloud.

During the partial solar eclipse the temperature dropped and traffic on the roads turned on their headlights.

Shonagh Ferguson and Gary Kane captured their image of the event from Stirling through a telescope using a smartphone

People gathered in Dumfries ahead of the partial solar eclipse

Dundee saw large gatherings of eclipse watchers

The Moon begins to move across the Sun in an image taken from Aberdeen by Kyle Melia

The behaviour of wildlife, including birds, is believed to change during such events. Colin Lourie took this photograph of a flock of birds during the event

Duncan McLachlan at the UK's most northerly nuclear power site, Dounreay, near Thurso in Caithness, also observed the partial solar eclipse

An eclipse watcher in the grounds of Glasgow University, taking eye protection precautions. Photo by Ian Woodrow of Houston, Renfrewshire.

Viewing the event using cardboard box pinhole cameras in Moniaive and a welder's helmet at Thurso's North Highland College UHI in pictures by Sue Grant and UHI

Dennis Fife, QinetiQ’s St Kilda manager, took his images from a radar station on the remote St Kilda archipelago. The middle image shows aircraft contrails during the eclipse

Alan Campbell took his picture from Heathhall in Dumfries

Tina Buchanan took her photograph from Aberdeen city centre

Clouds made for atmospheric shots from Wick, Glasgow Airport, Lennoxtown and Edinburgh Castle. Physics student Tomi Baikie said the colours were formed by light diffracting through ice crystals in the clouds

In Inverness thick cloud threatened to spoil views completely before a break in the cloud lasting a matter of seconds. A crowd gathered at Inverness Castle cheered when they got the briefest of glimpses

A photograph taken in Edinburgh on top of Blackford Hill next to the Royal observatory by Andrew Gillespie

Robert Allan in Linlithgow used four layers of theatre lighting filter to achieve the blue effect and Kim Bennett in Cupar created a filter using an empty fromage frais pot

Alan Tough, from Elgin, said he took this image while on a flight at 28,000ft from somewhere over the Faroes