Eclipse 1 Aug 2008

[MarkS]

Stepped outside the office and briefly saw the sun at 10:40 with a "bite" missing.  I used eclipse glasses and caught it in a 5 sec chink between clouds.

[JohnP]

Yep I saw it as well... Handheld the EOS through some Baader film & took a couple of 'white light' shots... nothing exciting but will post later...

John

[JohnP]

Here you go...

One image shot near Max eclipse (with cloud for effect ). Handheld EOS300D 28mm-105mm zoom lens set to 105mm - Exposure manual 1/4000 sec @f10 ISO 100 - shot through Baader Solar Film...




Cheers,  John

[Rick]

Caught a couple of brief glimpses, once from the car at about 09:40 BST when the sun was shining through cloud thick enough to allow the solar disc to be seen, and once through my PST at work, through a brief gap in the clouds a bit before 11:00 BST. No photos...

[MarkS]

Nicely caught, John!

[Carole]

We and the public all got to see it at the public Solar Eclipse event at High Elms, through a variety of scopes, eclipse specs, Jim's adapted binos, and a cardboard box gadget that one of our "quieter members brought along"  (I say quieter as that is how he described himself as I don't remember seeing him before).

The whole event seemed to go very well and the public were enthusiastic.

Carole

[Mike]

Yeah it went surprisingly well. Weather was great and we must have had about 50 people there at one point.

[Rick]

What a difference a few miles makes. I was dodging showers down here in Crawley...

[Whitters]

Managed to get a few shots off between the clouds and showers, see the astrophoto section.
Don't forget in two weeks time there is a partial Luna eclipse too.

[Rick]

Some BBC coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7536438.stm

...and random piccies: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7537136.stm