I'm being followed by a Moon Shadow

11.05am. Eclipse finished here at 10.44. Sure enough the cloud has now started to thin out and I just caught my first glimpse of the sun.

 

lovely pics Scungee, the filter gives a lovely effect.

 

Smashing pics @Scrungee

 

So here are my fairly undramatic photos taken in the garden during this morning's eclipse.

I simply took the first photo at the start of the eclipse, fixed the camera settings manually and took pictures at regular intervals on the same settings.

Watch and marvel as it goes from dull to duller and back again.

8:30. Start of eclipse.


9:00. Half an hour in.

9:15. Fifteen minutes from maximum.

9:30. Maximum eclipse.

9:45. Fifteen minutes after maximum.

10:30. End of eclipse.


Exciting stuff eh?

Just in case that sequence of pictures wasn't thrilling enough for you, here are the temperatures recorded by my weather station at half hourly intervals throughout.

7:00 4·6C
7:30 4·7C
8:00 4·9C
8:27 - Start of eclipse
8:30 5·2C
9:00 5·4C
9:30 5·1C
9:33 - Maximum eclipse
10:00 5·3C
10:30 6·6C
10:44 - End of eclipse
11:00 7·7C

Noticeable that the temperatures fall only gradually from about half an hour in, but there is a much faster rise in temperature as the sun returns. Presumably due to the early morning timing of the eclipse.

Minimum temperature during the eclipse itself was 4·9C at around 9:50, nearly twenty minutes after maximum eclipse.

Have I bored you all enough yet?

 

My contribution.

 

Clouds broke up enough for quite a good view here N. Yorks / Durham border. About 90% eclipse I guess.

 

My photos.

 

thank you all for showing us unfortunates ( who never saw a bloomin' thing..,. ) your fascinating piccies of the real deal...
but why is the eclipse the other way round on some folks views?..
If that was what you saw, then why did it appear that way for you?
I'm sure there's a logical explanation...
Jenny

 

depends where the moon was covering the sun.. mine is at the bottom because it was during the height of the eclipse (centred with only the bottom of the sun showing as a crescent), those with a different angle, where before or after the main eclipse, as it moved across. So that's why it appeared at different angles.

 

Some very nice photos of eclipse from GC members.

For reasons I don't know (and am still wondering why), during the eclipse period all I saw was the big bright sun though it became a lot dimmer for a while then brightened up again.

I did take a few pictures, they are sort of interesting in their own way.

9:10 the cloud started to disperse


9:18 the sun was well above the clouds by now and it should be quite eclipsed, but ... However I could see the reflection of the eclipsed sun (just below the sun) through the camera lens but not with my naked eyes.


9:21 again the sun and its reflection on the lower right.

 

Check out the animation here and you'll see the visible part of the Sun changes from the left hand side, to the underside and then to the right hand side. http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/uk/oxford

My pics above were taken in the later stages (Sun to RH side), but when I got my first glimpse through the murk it was like this




then moved to this




and then swung around to the other side

 

Aaaah - got it now Scrungee,
thank you,
Jenny

 

@HsuH I can't understand how you 'missed' it, it should have been like this at Bristol http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/uk/Bristol

I checked times, angles of inclination and likely locations (to get a bit of foreground) in advance and your pics seem very similar to this pre-eclipse one I took.



However, I do see an image of what I'd expect to see as 'flare' in the images - did you overexpose?

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