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I watched the 1999 total eclipse live, not in Cornwall but in France which seemed easier.
In 2015 I saw the light outside my office dim; I was due to watch Carmina Burana live that evening and speculated whether an extreme form of the new moon was a bad omen.
Sprout Eater | 10.06.21 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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It's looking like thick, low cloud here in SW London, as it was in 2017
Eric | 10.06.21 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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...but the weather forecast for later in the morning is promising.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.06.21 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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Is it? Oh, my BBC Weather app has now changed from Thick Cloud to Light Cloud, so hopefully you're right.
Eric | 10.06.21 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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Another super interesting post, densely packed with information and links. I'd venture that it probably eclipses (ahem!) your previous posts on the subject.
Frank F | 10.06.21 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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Beautifully sunny here in the north :)
*goes off in search of a colander, all the normal eclipse eye protection being 300 miles away*
Blue Witch | Homepage | 10.06.21 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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"Solar eclipses are nothing if not a highly irregular phenomenon."
We-e-e-ll, yes, they ARE highly regular phenomena, which is why people have been able to calculate them with such accuracy.
Eclipses occur at intervals of 18 years 11 days and 8 hours, but there are lots of interleaving eclipse cycles, each cycle having that periodicity, so we see (or miss) lots of eclipses in our lifetimes.
An encyclopaedia my grandparents had in the 1930s predicted all world eclipses from the 1920s to 1999. My family and I saw the 1999 eclipse in Salzburg: completely total, and spectacular. We planned our holiday to be there on the day.
AlanBG | 10.06.21 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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I also went to France for the 1999 TSE ... to Compiegne. I probably remember the packed out train back to Paris afterwards more than the event itself, but the TSE was good too !
ADS | Homepage | 10.06.21 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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I saw the 99 eclipse in Varna, Bulgaria, on the coast of the Black Sea. I was 19 and hooked. It went dark (obviously) for 2 minutes of full totality in the perfectly clear skies, but it was the fish flapping by the shore, and the birds roosting en masse, and an eerie drop in temperature that flicked a switch for me. Such genuine awe. How could this be natural? What did they think before science could explain this?
In 2017 I did a US west coast drive with my wife & 2 daughters with a stop in Detroit Lakes, Oregon (see url) for a repeat, but this time sharing it with my family. Equally impressive, but with a lot more whooping and hollering from the local crowds.
I think I need to make a totality trilogy, perhaps when I've retired. Thanks for the list, this will kick start my planning!
Chuck U Farley | Homepage | 10.06.21 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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07:30 Damn, it's hopelessly overcast
08:30 Hurrah, the sky's mostly blue
09:30 Ah, that's clouded over a lot
10:00 Grr, hopefully there'll be some gaps
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.06.21 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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Just had a look in Brussels now at max. Sunny but nothing registered with the colander. See you in 2026.
Kevin | 10.06.21 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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Clear sky in Dublin.
plentyoftasteblog.com/2021/06/10/partial-eclipse-of-the-sun
Charles | Homepage | 10.06.21 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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Had a clear sky here in Thanet, and easily perceptible bite using bucket-of-water technique. Colander images sadly too blurry to see the bite. Bucket of water unphotographable.
Malcolm of Kent | 10.06.21 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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From my garden in SW London:
11:00 Thick cloud
11:20 Thick cloud
11:40 Patches of blue in the wrong direction, thick cloud elsewhere
12:10ish A hint of a gap in the right direction. Through the eclipse sunglasses there's a small but clearly visible bite missing from the corner of the sun, though I assume it would have been bigger earlier. Attempt to take a photo and fail.
12:40 Lovely blue sky. Sun fully rounded.
Eric | 10.06.21 - 12:55 p.m. | #
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Personally, I find a good sunset or sunrise (or a solar eclipse by the earth) more beautiful. Plus, you can watch them without the faff of special glasses or looking at shadows through a pinhole. And best of all, they happen every day.
The cloud cover in Nottinghamshire in 1999 was at the perfect level to allow you to look straight at the sun without risking your eyes, and it was still pretty underwhelming. Very much filed alongside the Thames "River of Fire" a few months later in that respect.
James | 10.06.21 - 12:58 p.m. | #
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By far my best eclipse experience was a partial solar eclipse about 12 years ago.
I went to my next door neighbours (Mum, Dad, and three school-age children) who were all at home and they were astonished to learn there was a partial eclipse in progress. They were even more astonished when I showed them how to view it with the only equipment I had – an old Christmas card torn in half with a pinhole in the centre of one piece.
The children’s response was most rewarding. They were intensely interested and excited.
Great Aunt Annie | 11.06.21 - 1:50 a.m. | #
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I was in Wales and just grateful the promised rain held off! Not that I knew there was an eclipse expected anyway!
Cornish Cockney | 11.06.21 - 11:19 a.m. | #
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A day too late - or maybe five years too early - I've just found my 'Jessops Solar Eclipse Viewer' from the 1999 event. I've also found a piece of Shade 11 welding glass. Now I need to ensure I don't lose them before 2026.
Alan S | 11.06.21 - 12:05 p.m. | #
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