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The Eclipse
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MrOneLung said: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.
Ditto here in RTW.
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ladyromford did something with her phone and it did a sort of triple exposure thing.
Not sure why it did this but it looks quite cool. 😎
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Watched it on the beach at West Bay, Dorset.
A bit underwhelmed to be honest. It got noticeable darker and colder, but then it does that around that time of night anyway.
Shame it wasn't earlier in the day. Would really have noticed it then.
Hoping the meteor shower tonight is better.1 -
just had a look now and it's pretty dark, very impressive7
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My photos were pretty crap. But the totality is a different order. I read somewhere that the difference between 98% and totality is like kissing a stranger in a bar and marrying them and that covers it. One minute you are looking through glasses as a toenail clipping of the sun and the next moment its gone, the glasses come off and you are staring at a black hole with a ring of white fire around it. It was like a special effect production from Marvel, and one of the most spectacular events I've ever seen in nature.
Talking heads. Once in a Lifetime.2 -
Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.6
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Looks like a pigeon has just had a dump...soapy_jones said:
Hmmm, definately not a sand faced fletton, but a marvellous old red stock brick, fascinating... Anything important happening btw?eastterrace6168 said:
I'd say a nice example of "Old English Brickwork"...🤔guinnessaddick said:
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I wasnt expecting much but thought it was great. Looking through the glasses at it was really cool. Definitely got a decent bit darker here in Avery Hill park, looking around it felt like sunset but the sun was still there, then it got brighter again before actual sunset.
Lovely atmosphere in the park too. People chatting and sharing glasses with strangers, my wife had a spare pair and gave it to a family with kids who kept telling us how much it had made their day!!6 -
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My niece projected lots of little eclipses onto a leaf from her colander. Very arty.
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In Spain and was in a great spot to see it right until a poxy cloud came over and covered up the sun in the last fee minutes. Seeing the sky go dark and then light again was so surreal though
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I tried the colander on paper idea, must have been doing something wrong, as it didn't work.
Sat in the garden and expected it to be darker than it was, even though I knew that it wasn't a total eclipse.
Wood Pigeons and Collared Doves were still calling.
Left it too late to get glasses, so it was all rather underwhelming.
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Wonder if there will be a spike in A&E attendances tomorrow. Expect there will be but it'll be hard to disentangle that from the effects of the heatwave and tomorrow being the peak day.Addick_and_Chips said:1 -
ME14addick said:I tried the colander on paper idea, must have been doing something wrong, as it didn't work.
Sat in the garden and expected it to be darker than it was, even though I knew that it wasn't a total eclipse.
Wood Pigeons and Collared Doves were still calling.
Left it too late to get glasses, so it was all rather underwhelming.
We found that you have to pull the colander back a bit so it sort of looked 'out of focus' to get the effect. Our pinhole camera worked much better.5 -
I was probably holding it too close to the paper. I hadn't realised that the effect could be made through trees as well. Shame that I won't get another chance to try again!Stig said:ME14addick said:I tried the colander on paper idea, must have been doing something wrong, as it didn't work.
Sat in the garden and expected it to be darker than it was, even though I knew that it wasn't a total eclipse.
Wood Pigeons and Collared Doves were still calling.
Left it too late to get glasses, so it was all rather underwhelming.
We found that you have to pull the colander back a bit so it sort of looked 'out of focus' to get the effect. Our pinhole camera worked much better.0 -
All my photos were rubbish, but when I scanned down I noticed that several had a light with a blue light undeneath which when expanded showed an eclipse shape. Spooky
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We’re in southern Spain and as it was approaching dusk it just got duskier a little quicker.
Though it would go darker to be honest, plus we didn’t have any glasses.I only heard about it Monday when the rest of our party arrived… didn’t hear anything in the media about it last week.0 -
Having eclipse glasses made all the difference for me.Natural events like this used to scare early humans, and here we are able to predict them hundreds of years into the future. It's like watching centuries of scientific progress in a few minutes.I liked seeing the mighty sun almost blocked by the puny moon.The moon travels at over 1 km per second, but its shadow was still and you only noticed change every few minutes. It gave you a good feel for the distances involved.And the circles of the bright sun and the shadowy moon were perfect.I thought it was impressive.4
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We are in Norfolk atm, so watched it at Blakeney Harbour.8 -
Yeah, I had this problem for the Mar 2025 partial eclipse and ended up seeing nothing.ME14addick said:I tried the colander on paper idea, must have been doing something wrong, as it didn't work.
Sat in the garden and expected it to be darker than it was, even though I knew that it wasn't a total eclipse.
Wood Pigeons and Collared Doves were still calling.
Left it too late to get glasses, so it was all rather underwhelming.
As Stig said, you have to move the colander further from the paper than you think; we did that yesterday and saw it, in addition to the eclipse glasses.
However definitely recommend getting the glasses. Even looking at the regular uneclipsed sun through them is interesting.
Next partial eclipse in the UK is 2 August 2027, with 30%-60% partial depending on where you are.1 -
And if anyone wants to see the totality that will also happen in Spain (Malaga/Cadiz), Portugal and Morocco on august 2nd next year. And there's another one crossing Spain in January 2028. The last one was in 1905 here and we now have three in less than 500 days.Arthur_Trudgill said:
Yeah, I had this problem for the Mar 2025 partial eclipse and ended up seeing nothing.ME14addick said:I tried the colander on paper idea, must have been doing something wrong, as it didn't work.
Sat in the garden and expected it to be darker than it was, even though I knew that it wasn't a total eclipse.
Wood Pigeons and Collared Doves were still calling.
Left it too late to get glasses, so it was all rather underwhelming.
As Stig said, you have to move the colander further from the paper than you think; we did that yesterday and saw it, in addition to the eclipse glasses.
However definitely recommend getting the glasses. Even looking at the regular uneclipsed sun through them is interesting.
Next partial eclipse in the UK is 2 August 2027, with 30%-60% partial depending on where you are.3 -
I was umpiring a softball match when the eclipse was on. We suspended play for 10 minutes while the 1 person who had the magic glasses gave everyone who wanted a turn at looking at the sun at the maximum eclipse. It was spectacular. Noticeably darker at the time but not actually dark and we could have played on fine. I found the usual problem on our pitch that I can't see the ball against the setting sun down the first base line was just as bad at 80% eclipse as it is normally.
No-one had brought a colander but I did manage to make a crescent image using a hole in my watch strap as a pinhole, which I hadn't expected to work.0 -
A glimpse through the glasses in London and it was pretty cool, however seeing other pictures from places like Spain, ours was pretty darn shit.0
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Sorry about the source of this article, but these people are the reason shoes with Velcro fixings exist!
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16049293/Britain-eye-pain-solar-eclipse.html
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O-Randy-Hunt said:Watched it from Hyde park and some little chap lent me his glasses for a little bit. Pretty sick.
"Get down with the kids"😂1 -
My limited knowledge of modern terminology is that ‘sick’ meant bad but then changed to ‘good’.soapboxsam said:O-Randy-Hunt said:Watched it from Hyde park and some little chap lent me his glasses for a little bit. Pretty sick.
"Get down with the kids"😂
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Wicked!LenGlover said:
My limited knowledge of modern terminology is that ‘sick’ meant bad but then changed to ‘good’.soapboxsam said:O-Randy-Hunt said:Watched it from Hyde park and some little chap lent me his glasses for a little bit. Pretty sick.
"Get down with the kids"😂
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