Still clear and starry skies here in Devon @ 9:00, looking promising.

Total eclipse starts about 10:45 and lasts for approx 1 hour.

Bonos Ego wrote:
Still clear and starry skies here in Devon @ 9:00, looking promising.

Total eclipse starts about 10:45 and lasts for approx 1 hour.


I just looked at the eclipsed moon, directly ! Will my eyesight be all
right ?

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Joe
Wolverhampton
~175m asl

2305 Absolutely fantastic up here in Haytor. Total reddish brown eclipse.
Watched the shadow move across, brighter ring towards top of moon. Stars more
visible and one appeared at about 8 O-clock relative to moon. Going out again to
have another look with binoculars.

Will.
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"Bonos Ego" wrote in message
ps.com...
Still clear and starry skies here in Devon @ 9:00, looking promising.

Total eclipse starts about 10:45 and lasts for approx 1 hour.

"Will Hand" wrote in message
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2305 Absolutely fantastic up here in Haytor. Total reddish brown eclipse.
Watched the shadow move across, brighter ring towards top of moon. Stars
more
visible and one appeared at about 8 O-clock relative to moon. Going out
again to
have another look with binoculars.

Will.
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Absolutely fantastic here too, Will. Best I've seen, glowing orange. Awe
inspiring.
Dave

anybody see the very fast large brown object go across sky at about 10.45
sat speed shape of sst but large
?

Mike
"Will Hand" wrote in message
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2305 Absolutely fantastic up here in Haytor. Total reddish brown eclipse.
Watched the shadow move across, brighter ring towards top of moon. Stars
more
visible and one appeared at about 8 O-clock relative to moon. Going out
again to
have another look with binoculars.

Will.
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"Bonos Ego" wrote in message
ps.com...
Still clear and starry skies here in Devon @ 9:00, looking promising.

Total eclipse starts about 10:45 and lasts for approx 1 hour.

"flybywire" wrote in message
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anybody see the very fast large brown object go across sky at about 10.45
sat speed shape of sst but large
?

I was out with the binocs a few times and on two
occasions saw a large plane with full navigational
lights pass over at approx. 5000ft. It was totally
silent and if I had not gone outdoors would not
have been aware of it. We frequently get Hercules
transports over during the day and it may have been
one of these. OTOH Liz's wedding was taking place
about half a mile away across the fields and she may
have been taking exceptional precautions :-)
Spectacular views of the eclipse anyway.

Alan

no lights on this and moving at the speed of a satellite

could have been john Prescott

!!
"Alan Murphy" wrote in message
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"flybywire" wrote in message
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anybody see the very fast large brown object go across sky at about 10.45
sat speed shape of sst but large
?

I was out with the binocs a few times and on two
occasions saw a large plane with full navigational
lights pass over at approx. 5000ft. It was totally
silent and if I had not gone outdoors would not
have been aware of it. We frequently get Hercules
transports over during the day and it may have been
one of these. OTOH Liz's wedding was taking place
about half a mile away across the fields and she may
have been taking exceptional precautions :-)
Spectacular views of the eclipse anyway.

Alan

Well in the past 10 minutes high cloud has streamed across and stars are
disappearing and moon looks hazy.
If you live in the SW get out quick else you won't see much!

Will.
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
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2305 Absolutely fantastic up here in Haytor. Total reddish brown eclipse.
Watched the shadow move across, brighter ring towards top of moon. Stars more
visible and one appeared at about 8 O-clock relative to moon. Going out again
to
have another look with binoculars.

Will.
--

"Bonos Ego" wrote in message
ps.com...
Still clear and starry skies here in Devon @ 9:00, looking promising.

Total eclipse starts about 10:45 and lasts for approx 1 hour.

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 23:15:40 -0000, "Will Hand"
wrote:

Well in the past 10 minutes high cloud has streamed across and stars are
disappearing and moon looks hazy.
If you live in the SW get out quick else you won't see much!

Will, I was lucky here in Solentland, it stayed clear throughout -
apart from some thin high cloud that didn't cause significant
problems. It took me until totality to get the hang of photographing
this thing (with 50-200mm lens on Pentax digital SLR) - continual
rapidly forming deposits of condensation on the lens did not help! I
think one of my best shots came just _after_ totality ended. Here is
my feeble effort!

http://tinyurl.com/27aadu [Eclipse Photo]

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Cheers, Dave

"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 23:15:40 -0000, "Will Hand"
wrote:

Well in the past 10 minutes high cloud has streamed across and stars are
disappearing and moon looks hazy.
If you live in the SW get out quick else you won't see much!

Will, I was lucky here in Solentland, it stayed clear throughout -
apart from some thin high cloud that didn't cause significant
problems. It took me until totality to get the hang of photographing
this thing (with 50-200mm lens on Pentax digital SLR) - continual
rapidly forming deposits of condensation on the lens did not help! I
think one of my best shots came just _after_ totality ended. Here is
my feeble effort!

http://tinyurl.com/27aadu [Eclipse Photo]

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Cheers, Dave

That's precisely what I saw at 2300!
Great picture, it even shows the star that popped out.

Ta

Will.
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