please empty your brain below |
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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