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On 05 May 2004 14:56:56 GMT, omcom
(dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote:

Wonderful pictures, Pete. Thank you for posting.

Ditto from here - loved no.6 especially

I agree about no. 6, an excellent shot by Pete taken at the best time,
for me. I had a good view from here of the last part of totality and
the best bit was the 5 minutes around the end of totality, a wonderful
sight as the sun started once again to illuminate the moon's edges.

It's very difficult to portray a high contrast scene like that
photographically - although the human eye can see it easily (well mine
did!). Pete's effort in number 6 is as good, in such circumstances, as
you are ever likely to see. Simply superb.

--
Dave
Fareham

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Dave Ludlow wrote:

I agree about no. 6, an excellent shot by Pete taken at the best time,
for me. I had a good view from here of the last part of totality and
the best bit was the 5 minutes around the end of totality, a wonderful
sight as the sun started once again to illuminate the moon's edges.

It's very difficult to portray a high contrast scene like that
photographically - although the human eye can see it easily (well mine
did!). Pete's effort in number 6 is as good, in such circumstances, as
you are ever likely to see. Simply superb.

It's a lot better that my attempt (see a few posts earlier) - I
literally only had enough time to set up the tripod and turn the camera
on and take a pic before it clouded over and started raining!

Jonathan

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On Wed, 05 May 2004 21:36:29 +0100, Dave Ludlow
wrote:

On 05 May 2004 14:56:56 GMT, omcom
(dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote:

Wonderful pictures, Pete. Thank you for posting.

Ditto from here - loved no.6 especially

I agree about no. 6, an excellent shot by Pete taken at the best time,
for me. I had a good view from here of the last part of totality and
the best bit was the 5 minutes around the end of totality, a wonderful
sight as the sun started once again to illuminate the moon's edges.

It's very difficult to portray a high contrast scene like that
photographically - although the human eye can see it easily (well mine
did!). Pete's effort in number 6 is as good, in such circumstances, as
you are ever likely to see. Simply superb.

Thanks for that Dave - that was a really nice thing to say. Almost
brought a tear to my eye it did ;-)

--
Pete Lawrence
http://www.pbl33.co.uk
Astronomy & digital astroimaging