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weheee! just wandered across to the other side of the building, and with my trusty eclipse shades (from the solar eclipse 2002), i can see things starting (in melbourne, australia)

Cant see a bloody thing over here (Western USA)

That'd be because the Sun isn't usually visible at night, I suspect...

Eeeeeee, I knew I'd forgotten something.... Eclipse Specs back at home.

Doh!

We have a video and a picture of it from The Coven

You'll do it with a sheet of oxy-acetylene welding glass... and the exposure turned right down on a camera/video camera. Having a Mr BW to assist is essential too...

And it's not where it is on your pics below - it came in about 28 minutes past the hour.

dg flips the image - that look better?

Did you take the day off specially?

I saw it! I saw it! I just went out to warm up (over zealous air con) and a man had set up a camera reflecting thing with a card thing which projected it!

oooh! you had much better luck than i! i haven't seen it, but i tried!

I saw it using both eclipse glasses and a monocular. Fantastic sight and surprise, surprise, the weather was co-operative!

Elsie - Do you really think I'd arrange my holidays to coincide with the last Bow Routemaster and a Transit of Venus?
Back to work tomorrow...

My monocular-and-card arrangement worked perfectly, though the neighbours seemed kind of confused at seeing me in the back garden swearing at not being able to hold my hand steady.

Me and my mate left the office armed with pin-pricked cards - to no avail :-(.

Wasn't as exciting as the 1999 eclipse (also memorable for me getting my first home PC).

The Greenwich Observatory was featured extensively on Channel 4 News this evening. I scanned the crowd for you, naturally. Well, I wasn't going to let a small detail like not knowing what you look like put me off...

I suspect I was more likely to have been on Channel 5 News, given where the presenter was standing to make her reports. Alas, I forgot to watch both of them to check.

Down here in Aotearoa we found ourselves to be the western extent of the eastern pacific, with nothing visible.

We had to rely on a live internet feed from Sydney. Oh the ignominy!











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