Anyone watching the solar eclipse today?

[C R]

There's a partial solar eclipse visible in Great Britain starting about now. I made a pinhole projector earlier, but it looks like the clouds will be blocking the view.

 

[PK99]

Watch carefully!

 

[Drago]

Cloudier than a wet fart in a smoking room here in Poshshire.

 

[classic33]

Too much cloud cover. Just like the last full solar eclipse of the 20th century.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

It's shite being Scottish

 

[Bonefish Blues]

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It's shite being Scottish

In general, or specifically v-a-v eclipses?

 

[C R]

Too much cloud in here as well .

 

[Hacienda71]

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It's shite being Scottish

About 22yrs ago this August, there was a total solar eclipse across England but only partial across Scotland albeit 95%. Loads of people headed down South to see the total. It was cloudy and it just went dark. I was in Pittenweem in Fife on my honeymoon and the views were great.

 

[T4tomo]

The one in 1998 was very good, that was a full one. None of your cheap partial nonsense.

I remember the birds all went eerily quiet whilst it was eclipsing.

 

[Mr Celine]

Just been out to see it. It's cloudy here but the cloud cover is thin and variable. Occasionally visible with the naked eye through the cloud, when too bright for that I've been watching through a strip of fogged black and white film.

I can confirm that the gods are hungry and have taken a bite out of the top left of the sun.

 

[Edwardoka]

I told my sister during the eclipse of '99 that you could take a momentary peek at the sun if you looked through a CD... she then tried to look at it through the hole in the middle

 

[Mr Celine]

From my back door at 12:05. The bite was more central and larger at 11:30.

Mobile phone, through thin cloud plus fogged B+W film.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Total eclipse here. But that’s clouds for ya.

 

[johnblack]

was cloudy, no good

 

[Mr Celine]

Finished now, just as the clouds finally go altogether.

The 2015 eclipse was much better. This photo taken from outside my office, again through thin cloud.

20/03/15, 09:37. 1/2000 @ f8, iso100