Partial eclipse of the sun

[RobinP]

Today! This morning! Better views in the North, apparently.

'In London, where the Moon's disc takes its biggest bite out of the Sun at 1016 BST (0916 GMT), a maximum of 12% of the star will be blotted out.

Conditions are better further north. In Lerwick in the Shetland Isles, the Moon will obscure as much as 36% of the Sun.'

[Les E]

HI Robin,
As I write the eclipse has just started here but its pretty cloudy at the moment its a bit brighter compared with a half an hour ago and the rain has stopped.My scope and camera have their filters fitted and are ready for action if the sky clears.Heres hoping .
Regards Les.

[RobinP]

HI Les

I was just wondering how you take a photo, must have some pretty dark filters fitted, is that how you do it?

Good luck with the pics anyway, post them on here if you get any, bit grey & breezy here too dahn Sarf.

[James M]

Seen it but it's turned completely overcast now, got a couple of very blurry photos.

[James M]

Here's one of my poor attempts , I only had binoculars and some paper to hand.

[Les E]

HI All,
Well I got to see the eclipse but it was very cloudy.Nothing wrong with your image James it shows the eclipse very well ,you seem to have had brighter sunshine than me!I missed the maximumum but small clearances either side at 09:43GMT and 10:42GMT allowed me to observe and photograph the event.Robin,I used Baadar Solar Filter Film in front of a telephoto lens.I tried to set up a Gallery so as to download the images to this thread but they ended up somewhere in the archive never to be seen again
Regards Les

[RobinP]

I've found them for you, Les, excellent photos, cheers

[Les E]

HI Robin,
Thanks for retraiving the images Robin the workings of the Gallery are to complicated for me.Most of the astronomy forums its dead easy even for me to submit images.Let hope I can work it out for the Lunar eclipse on the 16th.
Regards Les.

[djackso]

Nice images - it all passed me by, sorry I missed it.