Not looking good in That London; a healthy eight oktas of cloud.
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Eclipse on Friday
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Officepaper box chamber with guitar wall hook box focal length extender and tracing paper screen seems to work OK, so it's gone with the eldest to nursery, along with a few quick shorter-f oatcake-box things. Didn't have time to try and use one of the bike boxes but it would have been a bit too unwieldy for children to use or for me to drag to work. Should have booked out a meeting room with a good view, good blinds and a good wall opposite the window and made it into a giant camera obscura.
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Cassette box parcel tape tin foil needle prick OK. Binoculars and white wall excellent. Clouds in, bah. Birds silent spooky!
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I reckon light cloud cover is the ideal condition for a partial. No need for glasses, and a couple of photos came out okay. Merry bushels of folk out in the car park.
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Linlithgow: birds chirping, clouds cloudy, still really bright at fullest occlusion for this location. Indeed it was darker at about 2pm a couple weeks ago when the rain clouds rolled in.
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Aye, cloud was a good thing in the end - natural solar photo filter.
Eclipse 1 by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Eclipse 3 by blackpuddinonnabike, on FlickrPosted 9 years ago # -
Weather couldn't have been better in the end, glad the horrible forecast yesterday was wrong. That was awesome.
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Lots of people using flash photography to take a picture of the eclipse. They'll need that extra couple of photons to assist the negligible number put out by the brightest object in our particular part of the solar system.
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I didn't notice any of that but there was hardly anyone at St Margaret's Loch and it was really peaceful apart from the sound of car horns as otherwise law-abiding motorists blocked the road to look at the eclipse. Masses of folk up the hill though!
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I can't help but feel the better photograph would have been at 180 to the event there will be loads of awsome astro type shots but with equipment I simply don't have.
On the other hand the cloud meant I could just enjoy the thing...
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Loads of people in the office with pinhole cameras.
Apparently the blinds on the glass ceiling of the atrium also allowed a good view.
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nice pic posted by Danny MacAskill
https://twitter.com/danny_macaskill/status/578901725093994496/photo/1Posted 9 years ago # -
Is there anything that guy does that isn't cool?
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the playboy photoshoot?
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Forgot about that one....fair point
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Mini biketrains have been telling me that they were both allowed to watch the eclipse without any eye protection. Teachers decided this was OK as it was cloudy in West Lothian. This differs some what to official guidance.
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It was clear skies in Dundee this morning so pinhole in bit of card it was. Lovely sharp crescent.
Not another one here for 90 years so glad I was able to see it. Rest if family saw it through cloud filter in Edinburgh.
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There's another almost as big as this one in 2026: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026
The 90 year gap is to the next totality in Scotland I think (there are about 30 partial eclipses - though most probably below 50%, still visible using all of the means today) between now and then (and a totality in Cornwall).
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You would think after all these years that the sun the earth and the moon could figure out some method of keeping out of each other's way?
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@gembo
It's the moon's fault. Refuses to ever go behind the sun's back.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Live stream from Edinburgh for today's partial eclipse.
ON NOW!
Posted 3 years ago # -
Good nudge I will get my colander
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