Solar Eclipse - October 23, 2014

[Canadian Roger]

This was taken from a place called Point Clark, on the shore of Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes.  I was really hoping to see the eclipsed Sun sink into the lake, but a band of clouds stopped me.

Still, it was very worthwhile.  The eclipse started at 5:36pm local time (21:36GMT) and should have ended at sunset, 6:26pm.  There were two banks of clouds low on the horizon, and the picture below was taken as the Sun was between the two.  The sun went into the clouds about 5 minutes before sunset. 

[Rick]

..and that big sunspot group, too; makes for a much more interesting partial eclipse image.

[Carole]

Ditto to Rick's comments.  Great image Roger.

Shame about the clouds.

Carole

[Canadian Roger]

Is anyone going to the Faroes for the 2015 total eclipse?

I can't afford to go to that one, instead I'll be heading into the US for the August 2017, event.

The last time I stood in the Moons umbra was in 1991 for almost 7 minutes...it's been too long.