Eclipse

[Ootini]

I like eclipses, they always remind me how small and insignificant we really are.

 

[Markymark]

WARNING!!

Do not look at the sun during the eclipse.

It's full of tits and right-wing rantings

 

[siadwell]

How the eclipse looked on The Night Sky app:
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How the eclipse looked in the real world:
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Must trim my bush...

 

[welsh dragon]

[QUOTE 3599513, member: 9609"]what is going on in this image ? the sun itself is overexposed and can't be seen, but high up there seems to be an upsidedown or mirror image of the eclipse.[/QUOTE]


Dont ask me. I just pointed and fired. What you see is what you get.

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Errr....stood on the end of Cromer Pie waiting for it to happen. Be stood there still if I hadn't noticed other folks wandering away at 9.38!

Still, the sunshine was nice.

 

[mybike]

Quite sunny here now.

 

[Stephenite]

Its been overcast and drizzly for the past couple of days. And just before the moment of maximum phase the clouds thinned and we had blue skies! The opposite to what i experienced in 1999 in Munich during a total eclipse. The pictures from Svalbard were fantastic. The best i could get here with a Canon 550D and four pairs of sunglasses:

 

[Crackle]

It was actually pretty hard to take a picture of it. In the end pure guesswork got me about two shots out of 30, the resting being white splodges.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Dissapointed after everyone bigged it up in the media.
Was expecting it to go as dark as it did the last time, in 1999, but it was nowhere near as big an eclipse.

That's what the rest of us up north experienced in 1999 when the BBC were practically in love with themselves over it all and all you southern softies got the best view, so you are clearly spoiled now and think it gets dark all the time!!

It got a bit dull, just like a really overcast day, that's all.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

It was actually pretty hard to take a picture of it. In the end pure guesswork got me about two shots out of 30, the resting being white splodges.

I got loads of pictures, I just stopped it down to f.22 and metered it for the sun, taking advantage of the slight cloud cover, so I got some fantasticly fast exposure times!!

By the way, we got the blue surrounding the sun too!!

 

[Fnaar]

Took loads of shots, not many came out well, but here's my best effort

 

[mybike]

As I said elsewhere, heard Radio Scotland from about 0923-0940 on medium wave.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'll download the pics later, I think I do have some nice ones.

It had been overcast all morning, and during the start of the Eclipse, but then, joy of joys, the blue sky and whispy clouds that had gradually been coming our way came just at the right moment, so we got a really clear view of it in the end.

Ironically it then got all dull and overcast again at the end, so we missed the beginning and end of it, a nice set of bookmarks as it were, but, we did get the main part!!

 

[Crackle]

I got loads of pictures, I just stopped it down to f.22 and metered it for the sun, taking advantage of the slight cloud cover, so I got some fantasticly fast exposure times!!

By the way, we got the blue surrounding the sun too!!

Yeah the blue is common. There's a few popping up on Flickr now, all with that blue halo. Couldn't really see it with the naked eye but much clearer on the camera.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Another one.