SOLAR ECLIPSE

[JooMoo]

A colleague and I were talking about it. He then turned to me and said "It says it's at 9, is that the morning or the ..............." as I burst out laughing at him.

[nuthatch]

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[Placido]

It just went as though the weather had turned a little bit cloudy; the birds didn't stop singing.
The TV image up in The Faroes was good though.

[Willpar]

There was a TV camera in Plymouth. Seems those were about the best pics. I did have a quick look at it.

[Kev]

I took pictures for almost the full 2 hours. I'll process them tonight. They look ok though.
I was out on a piece of grass at the hospital where I work with a friend from the lab next door who had a telescope. Was good fun. Lots of people stopped to look at what we'd got. Several took photos of the screen on the back of my camera with the eclipse on it!

[nuthatch]

Wor a blummin cheek

It was nothing like last time here but I think it was overcast then and a wind got up and swirled around a bit.

It was less light of course but the sun was shining all the time

Looking forward to the pics, Kev

[JooMoo]

There were loads of us out the front of our building - with our backs to the sun.
Because our windows are tinted ones, we could line ourselves up so that the sun was visible in the double glazing as a secondary image.
Then I worked out that it was actually better looking from inside and a whole lot warmer too.

We have a 17-year old lad in my team and this morning he actually asked"what is an eclipse". I sent him off to find some jaffa cakes
He then proceeded to say "that was shit" after seeing it !!

[nuthatch]

Oh dear well at least he may have learnt something ... was that the same one who asked whether it was 9 in the morning or the .... ?

Great stuff, JooMoo - seems you and Kev had a jolly morning

I suppose I could have set up a colander

[JooMoo]

No, the "9 when?" guy knew there was an eclipse coming. Mind you, I did tell the young lad about dragons eating the sun and the earth ending, so perhaps I hyped it up a bit

[Jacksparrow]

I only caught a fleeting glance of the eclipse at the time of biggest coverage due to cloud cover but about 10 mins later it cleared enough to get a better look. Although it got darker it was nowhere near as dark as 1999