On 05/03/2015 10:44, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 9:18:39 AM UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 8:04:22 AM UTC,
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"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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On 04/03/2015 21:57, Dawlish wrote:
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 7:54:27 PM UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 04/03/2015 19:38, wrote:
I've marked this as 'OT' but obviously the weather is very
relevant!
I've only just found out this is happening at all and it's
going to be
a major event. No totality across the UK of course that passes
to the
north of Scotland but here it looks like being around 90%.
IIRC Aug
1999 was something like 94% so the events will be comparable.

No not comparable, there is a massive difference in terms of output
of heat
and light between 90 and 94%.


Indeed, and 99% is totally different to 100%. In 1999 it was a very
memorable effect as total darkness raced across the sea, plunging
from just dim to virtually dark in a second. I had an ex member of
USW camping in my garden at the time.

Some lucky people on the Lizard actually got a break in the cloud at
the right time.

Here's a picture I took of the 1996 partial eclipse.
http://penzanceweather.atspace.com/wpage7.html

I was living in Crowthorne at the time which was 95% and was hardly
noticed by people not looking out for it. But I had driven to Butser
Hill which was 98% and that was noticeable with a rather strange eerie
light at totality and of course a good view of the sun. I do regret not
heading SW given the forecast of cloud, to have experienced total
darkness would have been awesome. Still a memorable occasion. 90% will
not be noticeable at all it terms of light diminution unless you are
very sensitive.

Will
I was in Bracknell at the time and the light at maximum cover had a very
strange quality to it. I took a couple of photos but you would have to
be told that it was at 95%, though it's impossible with an auto camera
to show the light quality. My notes say 98% - where can we find out
where the percentage coverage was in in Bracknell/Crowthorne?

I do have a photo of the sun at maximum coverage.