I'm taking photos of the eclipse at 5 minute intervals and collating
them together on http://www.jstott.me.uk/temp/eclipse.jpg

Unfortunately, to get an OK shot of the sun and to avoid blinding myself
requires several extra pieces of glass in front of the lens, so there's
quite a lot of extraneous reflections and stuff.

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Jonathan Stott wrote:
I'm taking photos of the eclipse at 5 minute intervals and collating
them together on http://www.jstott.me.uk/temp/eclipse.jpg

Unfortunately, to get an OK shot of the sun and to avoid blinding myself
requires several extra pieces of glass in front of the lens, so there's
quite a lot of extraneous reflections and stuff.


Great photos Jonathan, you're lucky, most of the country is cloud covered.

Joe
Wolverhampton
175m asl

Joe Egginton wrote:
Jonathan Stott wrote:

I'm taking photos of the eclipse at 5 minute intervals and collating
them together on http://www.jstott.me.uk/temp/eclipse.jpg
Great photos Jonathan, you're lucky, most of the country is cloud covered.

Indeed - the best bit is that I don't even have to go outside in the
cold to see it as the sun is in just the right position from my bedroom
window!

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Jonathan Stott wrote:
I'm taking photos of the eclipse at 5 minute intervals and collating them
together on http://www.jstott.me.uk/temp/eclipse.jpg

Unfortunately, to get an OK shot of the sun and to avoid blinding myself
requires several extra pieces of glass in front of the lens, so there's
quite a lot of extraneous reflections and stuff.


Great photos Jonathan, you're lucky, most of the country is cloud covered.

Joe
Wolverhampton
175m asl

Just had a quick glimpse of it here (central Lowlands). Cloud breaking for
about a minute in the right place at mid-eclipse (10am).
Tried taking a photo, but with no filters, F/9 and 1/2000th exposure it's
way too over exposed of course.
Must be quite a sight in Spain just now!
Alex.

Alex Stephens Jr wrote:

Just had a quick glimpse of it here (central Lowlands). Cloud breaking for
about a minute in the right place at mid-eclipse (10am).
Tried taking a photo, but with no filters, F/9 and 1/2000th exposure it's
way too over exposed of course.

I am using 1/8000th, f/32 and ISO200. Oh, and 1 stop of exposure
compensation. I have 2 4x netural density filters and a circular
polarising filter on the front of the lens (hence the reflections!).

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Jonathan, to avoid the problems you indicate, and the risk to your eyesight,
why don't you project the sun's image onto a sheet of paper, and photograph
that?

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Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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I'm taking photos of the eclipse at 5 minute intervals and collating
them together on http://www.jstott.me.uk/temp/eclipse.jpg

Unfortunately, to get an OK shot of the sun and to avoid blinding myself
requires several extra pieces of glass in front of the lens, so there's
quite a lot of extraneous reflections and stuff.

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
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Bernard Burton wrote:
Jonathan, to avoid the problems you indicate, and the risk to your eyesight,
why don't you project the sun's image onto a sheet of paper, and photograph
that?

Didn't have any time to set something up like that, unfortunately. I was
lazy and woke up late Eyesight should be fine becauseI just roughly
point the camera in the right place without looking through the viewfinder.

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In message , Jonathan Stott
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I'm taking photos of the eclipse at 5 minute intervals and collating
them together on http://www.jstott.me.uk/temp/eclipse.jpg

Unfortunately, to get an OK shot of the sun and to avoid blinding
myself requires several extra pieces of glass in front of the lens, so
there's quite a lot of extraneous reflections and stuff.


Excellent photos. Not a chance of seeing anything here due to overcast
Sc. Nevertheless, it was noticeably gloomy during the partial eclipse
and there was a marked levelling-off in the temperature rise from 0745z
till 0915z. It was like a very dark, overcast November morning for a
while.

Norman.
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

Excellent photos. Not a chance of seeing anything here due to overcast
Sc. Nevertheless, it was noticeably gloomy during the partial eclipse
and there was a marked levelling-off in the temperature rise from 0745z
till 0915z. It was like a very dark, overcast November morning for a
while.

Norman.
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
Chalfont St Giles 85m a.s.l.
England

I doubt very much if the gloom was due to the eclipse. I have
seen three eclipses of similar magnitude in a clear sky, on 25 Feb 1971
(mag 0.66), 12 Oct 1996 (0.61) and today (0.67). The actual
obscuration is less than the magnitude by about 0.1. In each case
there was a just perceptible reduction in the light giving a slightly
unreal effect, as if someone had turned the sun down a bit. Any cloud
obliterates this effect, and now that the Cu+Sc has spread here the
light level is only 5% of that with sunshine, but it is still quite
good daylight. The eye has a huge dynamic range and a change in
brightness of a factor of 2 is not immediately obvious.
The temp reach 15.1°C here at 1140Z but the cloud spread in and
it quickly dropped back to 13°.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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I doubt very much if the gloom was due to the eclipse. I have
seen three eclipses of similar magnitude in a clear sky, on 25 Feb 1971
(mag 0.66), 12 Oct 1996 (0.61) and today (0.67). The actual
obscuration is less than the magnitude by about 0.1. In each case
there was a just perceptible reduction in the light giving a slightly
unreal effect, as if someone had turned the sun down a bit. Any cloud
obliterates this effect, and now that the Cu+Sc has spread here the
light level is only 5% of that with sunshine, but it is still quite
good daylight. The eye has a huge dynamic range and a change in
brightness of a factor of 2 is not immediately obvious.
The temp reach 15.1°C here at 1140Z but the cloud spread in and
it quickly dropped back to 13°.


Not a chance of seeing anything here due to the hopelessly overcast
conditions but I did think that things seemed rather gloomier than one
might expect at the time of the eclipse. But then I was looking out for
any effects and I'm sure if I didn't know there was an eclipse on I
wouldn't have noticed anything unusual.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.