"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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04/03/2007 08:18:08
Dave Ludlow wrote in message


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]

--
Cheers, Dave
A beautiful evening on Fair Isle as well - excellent viewing
conditions. Much better than can be expected tonight!
I have a couple of images at http://www.northisles-weather.co.uk/
(It looks like a montage but its not - left out the white space
between images for dramatic effect!
Dave
Fair Isle

Neil wrote:


Col wrote:
"Martin Rowley" m
wrote in message ...
Obviously depends upon the weather!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6411991.stm

Might be problems in latter stages across much of southern Britain,
and NI & parts of Scotland might also be problematical, depending
upon how much high/medium cloud gets thrown forward across the upper
ridge axis.


I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this bit:

"He added that it was totally safe to observe and no protective filters
were needed because the Moon would actually be less bright than
during a normal full moon."

In fairness, my 8 year old son was a little concerned because he had
been warned about looking directly at the sun during last years (?)
partial eclipse. He assumed that any eclipse was dangerous to look at.


Comparison of visual magnitudes with the sun indicate that
the sun is some 465000 times brighter.


MH




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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

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
...
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