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Clearing skies here.
Looking forward to it, our team at work are heading out with a cuppa, cake and some pinhole viewers.
Looking promising here too.
very light cloud here, would be hopeful of watching the finale but knowing my employers.. 🙄
Overcast and grey here 🙁
Light cloud here too.
Got a meeting at 9:30, will try and reschedule for 9:45 and go and stand in the field over the road to see if the bird song drops off.
Overcast on the south coast ATM but we're hopeful and just packing a breakfast picnic... 😀
Looking encouraging, light cloud earlier is clearing with a fair bit of blue behind it...
I'll be riding out of Hebden Bridge 8)
Haven't got anything to watch it through 😥
I was in Cornwall in '99 though - it was ace.
Wallop - two bits of cardboard, one with pinhole in. Job. Done.
All this pinhole rubbish when you can use technology. Smartphone in selfie mode.
Hazy mist here.. Hopefully the moon will burn it off
bah. cloud and now drizzle in IV30.
our bit of oxfordshire is solidly grey...
Maidstone is grey skies as well. Which sucks because I have the schools telescope primed (with solar filter).
Annoying doesn't really cover it.
You wait ages for the sun to come out and the bloody moon comes along and spoils it. Typical.
[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11483302/Solar-eclipse-2015-watch-live.html ]Live stream from Svalbard via The Telegraph[/url]
Do you have to wear sunglasses ?And have a stick ?
No.
I've got a load of eclipse glasses I got for the passage of Venus a few years ago. I was hoping to make a profit this morning but it's 100% cloud.
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All this pinhole rubbish when you can use technology. Smartphone in selfie mode.
Which won't work because the camera won't be able to deal with the level of contrast.
Welding mask all the way for me.
Which won't work because the camera won't be able to deal with the level of contrast.
It'll give you a rough idea especially as it gets closer to the full eclipse.
Welding mask all the way for me.
I have one in my pocket all the time.
Adjust the settings perhaps?
Cloud and light rain in Inverness.
Adjust the settings perhaps?
Digital sensors just don't have the dynamic range unfortunately
I have one in my pocket all the time.
Well, I've just bought the lens with me! Far easier to get hold of than those eclipse glasses that are recommended.
I also read somewhere that a colander can be useful (for viewing the eclipse that is)
touch and go here 😕
If you think i am standing outside wearing a collander on my head 😉
I saw that too, produces multiple images.
Another option is to find a tree which is in leaf and look at small the patches of sunlight projecting through. They act like tiny pinholes. We watched the total from the bottom of the gorge de verdon with a tree projecting thousands of images on to a vast wall of limestone.
welding glass here as well but I also have that
Yeah, the sun was out a minute ago in Bristol and now obscured again. Fingers crossed.
No sacred Ganges to plunge into, and the Thames looks a wee bit cold. Relief that its cloudy and overcast then!
Will it still get noticeably darker - I assume so?
ITS STARTED HERE IN STROUD!!!!!!!
[giddy]The whol office has just been outside and had a look through some welding goggles. It has started![/giddy]
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suns now out here 😀
i'm sure it looks great, but here in Surrey (AShtead) it's as grey as a squirrel.
Sunny here in Cardiff 🙂
About to ride to work so will be a bit strange as it gets dark. I'll probably pretend it's the beginning of the zombie apocalypse for a bit of fun, lights fully charged 😆
Damn it! A huge cloud is moving in.
Looks promising here in Dundee
[url= http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/webcam.html ]http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/webcam.html[/url]
Cloudy over Brizzle...scuppers my plans. Maybe just go to the local park and see what's happening. 😐
*puts away shoebox pinhole projector till 2090*
Zero clouds in edinburgh
Drizzle not far away on the Wiltshire/Dorset borderlands.
Clear in Cheshire!... really good view
Oooh! It might clear in time but it's going to be close.
So what's the difference between admiring a good sunset and looking at an eclipse? You don't wear fancy goggles for the former.
Beautiful clear blue skies here in the Blacks. Starting to feel like evening....
Even my 6 year old knows the difference between the two and a quick google should help you out
Bristol is clearing. Lots of folk up on the downs watching.
Big band of cloud over Mount Malvern. Not going to shift far anytime soon either by the look of it. 🙁
Its got quite dull outside though. Ah well, I'm going to make a toastie to make up for it ...
And it's clearing!
Perfect view out my office window in Aberdeen, welders glass in hand!
Dundee - clear sky and the eclipse is visible. Pinhole setup at the ready
Stunning here in the forest of dean,, it's starting to get quite gloomy 🙂
[quote=Stoner ]Big band of cloud over Mount Malvern. Not going to shift far anytime soon either by the look of it.
A few holes poking through occasionally though - got a glimpse 5 minutes ago, and actually it's looking a bit thinner now.
edit: just got a really good view
Here's my viewer - tube about 1.5m long with a bit of foil and pinhole one end, viewing sheet on the other (hold in the side to see that)
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where did these clouds come from?!
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD.
Exactly the same shade of grey in London as it was an hour ago.
Clearing in Perthshire
Fingers crossed
Exactly the same shade of grey in London as it was an hour ago.
That's the killer smog for you.
aracer - just got a little thin bit of cloud go by so could get a good look WITHOUT GLASSES OOOHHHHHH!!!!!. Very thin crescent now.
brilliant. Would hate to have missed it.
And my toastie is ready. It's a good day.
Getting dark now.
The Horwich locals over the road have started chanting and sacrificing goats in the street. Again.
It's just a darker shade of overcast here.
BBC has some good coverage, especially of the people on Lewis who have travelled from around the would to look at the cloud. 😆
It's cloudless here on Cannock Chase but the sundial has stopped working.
I've made a pinhole camera out of a sheet of A4 which my grandson and I are enjoying using.
You get a better view by staring at the sun for 30 seconds. When you close your eyes you'll have a perfect image that you can keep returning to all day.
Good glimpses through the clouds in Dorset, really a fantastic occurence.
Lovely view from the back garden in Brizzle. 8)
Could not be cloudier!
Perfect here in caernarfon. It's bloody dark.
Cloudy in Newcastle. About 150 people standing in Times Square about to be disappointed
Getting light again now. The guy over the road with the dead goat is looking a bit foolish.
who turned the aircon on ! 🙂
Great view from our balcony in Brizzle. Come on...
Remarkably undark, really.
Hard to tell whether it's finished, or started for that matter. A dirty white van blocked the view from my desk for a few seconds, and was the same colour as the sky.
It definitely got darker here. Cloudy, but at times the right consistency to act as a filter - taking the sting out of the sun but just about thin enough to see through it. A thicker cloud moved over just as the sliver of sun got to its thinnest though.
Perfect here in caernarfon. It's bloody dark.
Its always dark in Caernarfon 😆
Just grey and gloomy here in Hampshire. I'll just have to make do with memories of '99 down at Portland Bill.
Will it still get noticeably darker - I assume so?
Seriously?
Cleared nicely just in time for the max
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Turns out that the type of cloud we have here just now is precisely the right kind to filter out most of the light from the sun today making for an exceptionally good filter. Stunning stuff.
My sister seems to think it's a bit disappointing. She is a moron.
Hardly went dark here in Brizzle. Nothing like as dark in 1999. Bit of an anti-climax tbh.