20th March 2015 - 90% Eclipse.
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Yep we had a sneaky view through the cloud near Harrogate... almost a bad idea given you're looking around in an overcast sky and then spot it suddenly break through into less thick cloud.
Once it became clear a hazy, through the cloud view would be the best we'd get I managed to take quite a few pics with live view on the SLT camera.
Just as it reached peak overlap and the crescent was completely down it seemed to pass really fast. On the view port in the camera you could almost see it moving around from off-centre to right down over about 20s.
A shame the human eye can't do spot metering so you can watch it without goggles
Dave
Once it became clear a hazy, through the cloud view would be the best we'd get I managed to take quite a few pics with live view on the SLT camera.
Just as it reached peak overlap and the crescent was completely down it seemed to pass really fast. On the view port in the camera you could almost see it moving around from off-centre to right down over about 20s.
A shame the human eye can't do spot metering so you can watch it without goggles
Dave
The_Doc said:
Ours looked a lot like that.There were whitey thin spots but where the sun spot was it was light neon blue in colour.
Also did anyone notice generally, the area about 15-25deg or so around the sun spot through hazy cloud looked like it had a weird 'zoom' blur applied? I assumed it was maybe the pattern of a thin crescent shaped light source doing weird optical effects within the cloud cover, vs the usual round blob light source we normally get.
I asked my wife and she said she could see the same... so something really there, or some effect on our eyes themselves. I tried to get the camera in time but it'd gone.
It didn't seem to do it all the time, probably about 5-10 minutes before peak coverage here and only for maybe 60s or so.
Dave
Superb viewing down in Plymouth, some decent camera filters, welding masks from DT and a couple of refractors set up as project. Good images:
Properly stunning, first one for me and it was incredible, eerie and cold, pretty dark although you only really noticed how dark it had got once the Sun started to reappear.
Blown away.
Properly stunning, first one for me and it was incredible, eerie and cold, pretty dark although you only really noticed how dark it had got once the Sun started to reappear.
Blown away.
Mr Whippy said:
Also did anyone notice generally, the area about 15-25deg or so around the sun spot through hazy cloud looked like it had a weird 'zoom' blur applied? I assumed it was maybe the pattern of a thin crescent shaped light source doing weird optical effects within the cloud cover, vs the usual round blob light source we normally get.
I asked my wife and she said she could see the same... so something really there, or some effect on our eyes themselves. I tried to get the camera in time but it'd gone.
It didn't seem to do it all the time, probably about 5-10 minutes before peak coverage here and only for maybe 60s or so.
Dave
Got the whole lot on the puter now but not seeing that?I asked my wife and she said she could see the same... so something really there, or some effect on our eyes themselves. I tried to get the camera in time but it'd gone.
It didn't seem to do it all the time, probably about 5-10 minutes before peak coverage here and only for maybe 60s or so.
Dave
jmorgan said:
Got the whole lot on the puter now but not seeing that?
Ah ok, it seems to have come out a bit in some photos here.Wow, ISO 320 @ f3.5 and 1/4000s... you don't realise how bright it still is.
Towards the bottom left it's like blurry.
At the time I didn't want to be gorping in that general region too much because it's still fairly bright (not sure how much the clouds clear out the nasty wavelengths), but it's more clear now that it's some kinda funky shaped shadows or cloud internal refractions.
I'd guess at it being a bit to do with the sun light shape being a crescent vs a blob?!
Cheers
Dave
I think, having gone to the quite substantial technical effort of getting an aircraft into the sky with all the equipment on board to be able to see totality and transmit it back to the UK, I think that was their priority.
It seems that they did have communication difficulties at first and they had to radically change the aircraft flight pattern to establish a reliable communications link.
It seems that they did have communication difficulties at first and they had to radically change the aircraft flight pattern to establish a reliable communications link.
The thing I noticed (and also with the total eclipse viewed from Torquay back in 1999), was the air temerature seemed to drop significantly, even though the light level reduction obviously wasn't stunning this time. this morning I could see my breath around the 90% period. Apart from the extent of the darkness, the other difference was that the birds didn't go to roost like they did in Torquay - I guess that was due to light levels.
dr_gn said:
The thing I noticed (and also with the total eclipse viewed from Torquay back in 1999), was the air temerature seemed to drop significantly, even though the light level reduction obviously wasn't stunning this time. this morning I could see my breath around the 90% period. Apart from the extent of the darkness, the other difference was that the birds didn't go to roost like they did in Torquay - I guess that was due to light levels.
Felt that here in Lincs too.Just shows how much warmth we get from the Sun.
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