In article om, dated
Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Dave Liquorice wrote
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:16:04 +0100, Mark Annand wrote:

I was totally surprised that while things became noticeably gloomier
as the eclipse progressed, it wasn't until close to totality that
things started to fall of a cliff so to speak.

When you see the shadow from space it's obvious:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990830.html

{light level} There's a plot on this page:

Fascinating.

What I noticed very strongly in August 1999 and to a slightly lesser
extent yesterday was the change in the spectrum - the reds in particular
seemed to leach out of the colours. Did anyone else have the same
experience?

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