Just a timely reminder of the annular eclipse of the Sun which takes place tomorrow morning.

Fred Espenak's Site

The eclipse will be partial or annular over most of Africa, Europe, India and the Middle East. If the weather co-operates it will be my third partial eclipse...

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My star software has it almost perfectly annular around 9UT tomorrow, viewed in Madrid, Spain.

Here's the Sky & Telescope article, which also includes live webcast links.

Neat!

Dagnammit! Clouded out completely here.

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I watched the eclipse from my university campus in Lisboa. Had to miss a class too, but it was worth it.

It was great to see bit by bit of the sun disappear and it got even better when one of my professors brought out his telescope and let us take a peek through it. He was using a filter on his eyepiece, instead of on the objective, and that made me quiver a bit, but I took the peek anyway. Of course I wasn't going to pass out on an opportunity like that!

One of the things that really hit me was the drop in temperature. For a while it got really cold, and in a day whose temperatures where supposed to reach 30ºC!

I took some pictures with my digital camera, using the protective eyeglasses I still had from the August 11th 1999 eclipse but they came out all fuzzy. In most of them you actually see two discs of light instead of one! No wonders there, though. I was holding the camera with one hand and the glasses with the other, so I didn't expect much.

I don't know if this is me being an alarmist but my eyes kind of hurt a bit. It could be from staring at the sun for a few hours ( I had protective glasses on the whole time, don't worry ) and the light getting to me or it could be that I actually hurt myself...

All in all, it was a great experience

This annular eclipse is also being discussed in one of our twin forums.

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I saw it when it was near it's max here (60% covered or so). Very neat! Perfect skies, only some chem contrails ;-), I wish it had been like this with the complete eclips of 1999 (rather cloudy then).

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View from my front door ~10.00 am BST. Very cloudy and lucky to get anything at all.





Canon D60, 300mm zoom lens, green tint is from welding glass filter, colour removed digitally in second pic

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Darn, the Earth blocked my view!

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Those are some wicked photos, frogesque! Very nice.

Nice job considering the hand you were dealt! Figures, typical British weather rearing its ugly head to interfere. Kudos in any case.

Denia was under the totality 'flight path', but was under cloud at the critical moment. Managed a few shots before and after totality using 8in Newtonian at f10 and 32mm EP.(31X) after giving up on the original site where we had been since 09:00, and chasing the sun to catch the event at 11:04.
Sony V3,1/640@f2.8 iso200. Baader solar filter.
We are now back to wall to wall sunshine!
Best regards to all
Brian H.