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The Eclipse

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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 5,573
    ME14addick said:
    EugenesAxe said:
    https://www.youtube.com/live/X_lWDBTZdrY?si=B5UpjYZfVZ0cXr0E


    The live chat on that channel shows how moronic some people can be. 
    First thing I do on any live stream is turn the chat off!
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 10,548
    Let's hope it doesn't end up like Day of The Triffids. Only 7 minutes to go until it starts here.

    It's been a long hot summer
    Let's get undercover
    Don't try too hard to think
    Don't think at all 
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,786
    Getting dark here in Zaragoza. Totality in 14 minutes.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 31,417

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  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 3,681
    Here in London, most impressive even though it only 90%. The Paraquetes all heading to their roosts, just like sun set. 
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 11,989
    Watched it from Hyde park and some little chap lent me his glasses for a little bit. Pretty sick.
  • Arthur_Trudgill
    Arthur_Trudgill Posts: 634
    I was surprised by how light it was with 90% of the sun covered.

    Still quite an impressive spectacle and I even managed to borrow eclipse glasses from somebody at work!
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 10,005
    That was massively underwhelming 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 10,005
    edited August 12
    msomerton said:
    Here in London, most impressive even though it only 90%. The Paraquetes all heading to their roosts, just like sun set. 
    That was my favourite bit. The parakeets all of a sudden realizing it was time to get home was great. 

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  • Sheepie1985
    Sheepie1985 Posts: 650
    Pinhole camera for the win 
  • addix
    addix Posts: 1,297
    guinnessaddick said:

    You're no Banksy ;)
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,878
    Huskaris said:
    That was massively underwhelming 
    Saw a better one when Hasselbaink bent down to check his laces in a match at The Valley!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 31,417

  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,439
    waste of time.. Burnham out 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 9,193
    Bit odd really - they were showing it nearly fully eclipsed from Greenwich observatory as I was looking at it fully blazing - reckon the firm selling the viewing glasses are linked to the PPE scandal and met office 
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 28,608
    edited August 12
    guinnessaddick said:

    I'd say a nice example of "Old English Brickwork"...🤔
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,157

  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,538
    I got a welding glass to view it. My neighbour told me I shouldn’t use it while he struggled with his kitchen utensils. I tried to tell him the glass is specked for arc welds but he didn’t want to look. 
    It looked just as I thought it would and that’s probably the best I’ll ever see an eclipse. Doubt I’ll live another 60 years. 

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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 5,573
    DOUCHER said:
    Bit odd really - they were showing it nearly fully eclipsed from Greenwich observatory as I was looking at it fully blazing - reckon the firm selling the viewing glasses are linked to the PPE scandal and met office 
    Was kebab shops here selling glasses  :D
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 73,420
    Even with 99.5% blocked, the photos from my phone were still quite disappointing. Watching through the glasses was really good though.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,570
    Bedsaddick said:
    I’ll probably miss it which is a shame .  I go into Addenbrooks hospital today for a few weeks . 
    Just like to give a fellow Addick my very best wishes. 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,878
    eastterrace6168 said:
    guinnessaddick said:

    I'd say a nice example of "Old English Brickwork"...🤔
    Hmmm, definately not a sand faced fletton, but a marvellous old red stock brick, fascinating... Anything important happening btw?
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 5,099
    So when's it happening? Oh it's passed already??How very inconsequential yet passed off as headline news by so many so called media outlets.
  • CAFCBourne
    CAFCBourne Posts: 3,897
    killerandflash said:
    Even with 99.5% blocked, the photos from my phone were still quite disappointing. Watching through the glasses was really good though.
    Looks like my telly on standby 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 16,637
    Huskaris said:
    That was massively underwhelming 
    Yep - am in Portugal and not sure I’d have noticed anything if the missus hadn’t mentioned anything 
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,840
    DOUCHER said:
    Bit odd really - they were showing it nearly fully eclipsed from Greenwich observatory as I was looking at it fully blazing - reckon the firm selling the viewing glasses are linked to the PPE scandal and met office, FIFA and Trump.

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 28,217
    That was rubbish. 

    It was still really light here in Essex. 

    The trees in my garden was still in sunlight the whole time. 

    The sky didn’t even seem to darken. 

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