Eclipse watchers.

Clear in Cheshire!… really good view

Oooh! It might clear in time but it’s going to be close.

So what’s the difference between admiring a good sunset and looking at an eclipse? You don’t wear fancy goggles for the former.

Beautiful clear blue skies here in the Blacks. Starting to feel like evening….

Even my 6 year old knows the difference between the two and a quick google should help you out

Bristol is clearing. Lots of folk up on the downs watching.

Big band of cloud over Mount Malvern. Not going to shift far anytime soon either by the look of it. 🙁

Its got quite dull outside though. Ah well, I’m going to make a toastie to make up for it …

And it’s clearing!

Perfect view out my office window in Aberdeen, welders glass in hand!

Dundee – clear sky and the eclipse is visible. Pinhole setup at the ready

Stunning here in the forest of dean,, it’s starting to get quite gloomy 🙂

A few holes poking through occasionally though – got a glimpse 5 minutes ago, and actually it’s looking a bit thinner now.

edit: just got a really good view

Here’s my viewer – tube about 1.5m long with a bit of foil and pinhole one end, viewing sheet on the other (hold in the side to see that)

where did these clouds come from?!

IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD.

Exactly the same shade of grey in London as it was an hour ago.

Clearing in Perthshire
Fingers crossed

Exactly the same shade of grey in London as it was an hour ago.

That’s the killer smog for you.

aracer – just got a little thin bit of cloud go by so could get a good look WITHOUT GLASSES OOOHHHHHH!!!!!. Very thin crescent now.

brilliant. Would hate to have missed it.

And my toastie is ready. It’s a good day.

Getting dark now.

The Horwich locals over the road have started chanting and sacrificing goats in the street. Again.

It’s just a darker shade of overcast here.

BBC has some good coverage, especially of the people on Lewis who have travelled from around the would to look at the cloud. 😆

It’s cloudless here on Cannock Chase but the sundial has stopped working.

I’ve made a pinhole camera out of a sheet of A4 which my grandson and I are enjoying using.

You get a better view by staring at the sun for 30 seconds. When you close your eyes you’ll have a perfect image that you can keep returning to all day.

Good glimpses through the clouds in Dorset, really a fantastic occurence.

Lovely view from the back garden in Brizzle. 8)

Could not be cloudier!

Perfect here in caernarfon. It’s bloody dark.

Cloudy in Newcastle. About 150 people standing in Times Square about to be disappointed

Getting light again now. The guy over the road with the dead goat is looking a bit foolish.

who turned the aircon on ! 🙂

Great view from our balcony in Brizzle. Come on…

Remarkably undark, really.

Hard to tell whether it’s finished, or started for that matter. A dirty white van blocked the view from my desk for a few seconds, and was the same colour as the sky.

It definitely got darker here. Cloudy, but at times the right consistency to act as a filter – taking the sting out of the sun but just about thin enough to see through it. A thicker cloud moved over just as the sliver of sun got to its thinnest though.

Perfect here in caernarfon. It’s bloody dark.

Its always dark in Caernarfon 😆

Just grey and gloomy here in Hampshire. I’ll just have to make do with memories of ’99 down at Portland Bill.

Will it still get noticeably darker – I assume so?

Seriously?

Cleared nicely just in time for the max

Turns out that the type of cloud we have here just now is precisely the right kind to filter out most of the light from the sun today making for an exceptionally good filter. Stunning stuff.

My sister seems to think it’s a bit disappointing. She is a moron.

Hardly went dark here in Brizzle. Nothing like as dark in 1999. Bit of an anti-climax tbh.